Payout for Infected Blood Experiments on Children ‘Insulting’ Say Victims

An additional £15,000 payout for pupils infected with HIV and hepatitis while subjected to unethical medical testing in the 1970s and 1980s has been branded “derisory” and “insulting” by victims. The infected blood scandal has been labelled the biggest treatment disaster in NHS history, with victims set to receive up to £2.7 million each with an “unethical research” supplement for those subjected to the testing. One of the survivors, Richard Warwick, said the experiments, carried out on boys with haemophilia at Lord Mayor’s Treloar’s College for Disabled Children by NHS clinicians who knew the risks,  were “perhaps” in breach of the Nuremberg Code....