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Mr Mangnall said: “We have a situation report every morning with all the health authorities and organisations and the Secretary of State for Health, Victoria Atkins, has been very active on this as well. We have scaled everything up. We’re obviously making sure the resources are there and the local hospitals and facilities, if it

Nobody in the UK has yet to be held accountable for the scandal.GovernmentA group legal action has been mounted against the Department of Health for its role.Specialist centres: A group of boys who attended and were infected at Treloar’s school for disabled children is taking legal action against the school itself. The school, however, blames

Since then they have helped thousands of men open up – and have saved lives along the way. Just before his 40th birthday, Alex McClintock tried to take his own life. He had been suffering a period of deep depression and alcoholism after the break up of his marriage. His suicide attempt failed but the

John Cleese has disclosed that he has been unable to cure his sudden onset of vertigo and that it had now left him terrified of using stairs.The actor and writer, who towers over most people at 6ft 4in, said he developed the sense of spinning dizziness more than a year ago, but a neurologist he

I met my now-husband Kieran through friends in 2002 and we were both part of a social group who would pile out of our offices around the same time and go out for meals or to bars before heading home, pretty much every night. On those nights, I’d frequently consume a bottle of wine and

NHS trusts already have to employ a Freedom to Speak Up Guardian, whose job is to ensure whistleblowers are listened to and treated appropriately, but Ms Atkins concedes that there is still more to be done.Doctors’ groups want changes in the law to give further protection to whistleblowers, including a new criminal offence of causing

Victims of the infected blood scandal will receive new interim compensation payments this summer, The Telegraph can reveal. Around 4,000 people, including surviving infected people and bereaved spouses, had been given “interim” payments of around £100,000 in October 2022 but there has been uncertainty about the next steps.The infected blood inquiry’s final report is due on

“I’ve never had a stomach bug like it,” says Blake. “I haven’t been able to work for a week, and I won’t get compensation as I don’t live in Brixham. I’m also very aware that I was on holiday from May 6 to May 10, and South West Water only announced the contamination and warned

The Infected Blood Scandal is described as the ‘worst treatment disaster in the history of NHS’. It resulted in thousands of people in the UK in the 70s and 80s being given blood transfusions or blood products that were infected with viruses such as Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, and HIV. Thousands died after being given contaminated products

Baroness Fox, one of the peers calling for a campaign to rid the country of Covid-era warnings, said: “During the pandemic we were faced with an endless series of patronising, condescending and ultimately draconian messages in every public space.“It’s like a nightmare to remember it, but actually it’s very hard to forget it because in