Death in the Blood

Name: Death in the Blood
Brand: Headline
Price: 44.99 AUD
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the most shocking scandal in NHS history from the journalist who has followed the story for over two decades

Read by: Caroline Wheeler

Author: Caroline Wheeler

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Format
Digital Audiobook

Duration
09:37.02

Published: 21st September 2023

Digital Audiobook

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The definitive account of the NHS infected blood scandal from the political editor of The Sunday Times.

In the 1970s and 1980s almost 5,000 people in the UK contracted HIV or hepatitis C after being infected by contaminated blood products, including the notorious Factor VIII, yet no organisation or individual has ever been held to account. So far more than 2,800 are known to have died, while tens of thousands more lives have been destroyed in the families of those affected.

Caroline Wheeler has been reporting on this scandal - the worst treatment disaster in the history of the NHS - for over two decades. She has been integral to the campaign for justice for the victims and their families, and played a pivotal role in persuading Prime Minister Theresa May to agree to the infected blood inquiry in 2019, the findings of which are expected to be published in summer 2023.

Death in the Blood will be based on thousands of government documents, court and inquiry transcripts, interviews with prime ministers, cabinet ministers, Downing Street advisers, senior civil servants, doctors, and above all the victims and their families whose personal testimony forms the beating heart of the audiobook.

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