Health written question – answered at on 22 February 2007.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health on which dates her Department sought legal advice on the extent of its liability for the administration of contaminated blood products to people with haemophilia and subsequent infection with hepatitis C and HIV; and if she will make a statement.
We regret that patients were infected with HIV and hepatitis C through treatment with plasma products, prior to the introduction of heat treatment in the mid-1980s. However, the Department has not admitted liability for the tragic infection of patients with haemophilia.
Legal advice would have been sought prior to the HIV litigation in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and the hepatitis C litigation which commenced in 2000.
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