Contaminated Blood (Support for Infected and Bereaved Persons) Bill [HL] 2010-12

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	Bill 109 2010-11 as brought from the Lords | PDF version, 90KB	18.11.2010

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The Bill failed to complete its passage through Parliament before the end of the session. This means the Bill will make no further progress.

Summary of the Bill

The purpose of the Bill is to provide support for people who have been infected with certain diseases as a result of receiving contaminated blood and blood products supplied by the National Health Service. The Bill would establish a compensation package for people who have been infected, their widows, dependants and carers. It would also set up a committee to advise on the treatment of haemophilia and a review into the support available for infected people and their families.

Lord Morris of Manchester introduced a similar Bill with the same title in the 2009–10 parliamentary session. It completed its stages in the House of Lords on 21 January 2010, and received its first reading in the House of Commons on the same day, but made no further progress.

Key areas

• All people with haemophilia who have received blood or blood products supplied by the NHS would be offered a test for hepatitis B and C, HIV, human T-lymphotropic virus, syphilis and variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Their partners would also be eligible to receive the test.
• All blood donors would be routinely tested for these conditions, and donated blood would be subject to prion filtration.
• People who have been infected by contaminated blood or blood products supplied by the NHS would receive NHS compensation cards entitling them to free-of-charge prescription drugs, counselling, physiotherapy, occupational therapy and home nursing, and priority NHS treatment whenever possible.
• People who have been infected would be entitled to claim non-means tested financial compensation.
• Widows and other dependants of people who have been infected, and those who have had to give up work to care for an infected person, would also be entitled to claim compensation.
• A committee to advise on the treatment of haemophilia would be established. The committee would be involved in a review of the support available for people who have been infected by contaminated blood or blood products and their families.
  

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