Jim Reed
Health Reporter at BBC
BBC health reporter. Was at #VictoriaLIVE, #newsnight, #newsbeat. Dad to three small, screaming children. DMs open or email me on [email protected]
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1 week ago |
bbc.co.uk | Jim Reed
Andrew Evans, chair of the campaign group Tainted Blood, told the hearing many victims and their families had been left feeling "betrayed and disappointed". "People have given up on any expectation of receiving anything," he said.
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1 week ago |
bbc.com | Jim Reed
More blood victims will die without compensation - ministerJim ReedPACabinet Office minister Nick Thomas-Symonds arrives at the Infected Blood Inquiry in LondonMore victims of the infected blood scandal will die without ever receiving compensation, a government minister has said. The paymaster general Nick Thomas-Symonds was giving evidence to a special session of the public inquiry into what's been called the worst treatment disaster in NHS history.
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1 week ago |
yahoo.com | Jim Reed
Government officials have been called to give evidence to a special session of the infected blood inquiry amid "grave concerns" about the speed of compensation payments. The inquiry's chair, Sir Brian Langstaff, made the unusual decision to take fresh evidence nearly a year after his final report into the scandal. More than 30,000 people in the UK were infected with HIV and hepatitis C after being given contaminated blood products in the 1970s and 1980s.
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1 week ago |
ca.news.yahoo.com | Jim Reed
What is the infected blood scandal and how much compensation will victims get? Government officials have been called to give evidence to a special session of the infected blood inquiry amid "grave concerns" about the speed of compensation payments. The inquiry's chair, Sir Brian Langstaff, made the unusual decision to take fresh evidence nearly a year after his final report into the scandal.
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3 weeks ago |
medium.com | Jim Reed
If this title resonates with you we’re probably pretty similar. The longer I’m here the more ridiculous it all seems. The only thing that makes any sense to me is to pursuit extreme experiences, I have no desire to pursuit wealth, acquire a big house or any of that other bollocks that has been proven many millions of times to not make people happy. I long for absolute freedom and peace of mind.
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PSG team bus has just parked up outside the flash Langham hotel (opposite BBC HQ off Regent’s Street). Meant to show balance and all that but come on Arsenal. https://t.co/Ez5T11vxAy
The infected blood inquiry, which we thought was done and dusted with its final report last year, has just called cabinet office minister Nick Thomas-Symonds back to special hearing on May 7. All to address concerns that compensation is taking way too long to get off the ground.
If you read the small print looks like there’s an exemption for pharmaceuticals in the Trump tariff announcement. That will please Glaxo and AstraZeneca given the UK exports £9bn of drugs a year to the US. https://t.co/yDmzWTb2Hu https://t.co/3R8twpbKFw