At the beginning of May, Professor Ashley Brown, Clinical Lead, NHS England HCV Elimination Programme, provided a brilliant training session for our Southern Community Team on Hepatitis B.
Huge thanks to Ashley for a very helpful and insightful session!
At Oral Questions to the Cabinet Office this week, MPs asked Nick Thomas-Symonds MP, Minister for the Cabinet Office, questions on the Infected Blood Compensation Scheme, including recently announced changes.
Here, Ian Lavery MP asks an important question on compensation for psychological harm.
At Oral Questions to the Cabinet Office this week, MPs asked Nick Thomas-Symonds MP, Minister for the Cabinet Office, questions on the Infected Blood Compensation Scheme, including recently announced changes.
Here, Damian Hinds MP questioned the Minister on how IBCA will make assessments for the new Special Category Mechanism Award.
At Oral Questions to the Cabinet Office this week, MPs questioned Nick Thomas-Symonds MP, Minister for the Cabinet Office, on the Infected Blood Compensation Scheme, including recently announced changes.
Here, Clive Efford MP raises a question about how the community are able to raise their concerns with the Compensation Scheme.
At Oral Questions to the Cabinet Office this week, MPs questioned Nick Thomas-Symonds, Minister for the Cabinet Office, on the Infected Blood Compensation Scheme, including recently announced changes.
Here, David Davis MP raises a question about the pace of compensation
On Monday, we joined the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Haemophilia and Contaminated Blood
drop-in on changes to the Infected Blood Compensation Scheme.
The session provided an important opportunity for us to relay to MPs and their staff that despite the announced changes of last week, many injustices in the scheme remain.
Yesterday, the Government published their response to the public consultation on proposed changes to the Infected Blood Compensation Scheme. You can read a summary of their response, and our reflections over on our website.
To mark 40 years of Bristol Drugs Project, BDP are proud to partner with The Hep C Trust for a two-day harm reduction conference on the 17th and 18th September! 🎉🎉
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The Government is considering its last major changes to the Infected Blood Compensation Scheme. We've been pushing for them to:
🔶Recognise the full, devastating impact of hep C and early treatments
🔶Provide fair compensation for those subjected to medical experimentation
We’re worried that the recommendations of the Infected Blood Inquiry will not be fulfilled when these final changes are made.
We know that Nick Thomas-Symonds wants to be the Minister who finally rights this wrong. Time is running out, but there is still the opportunity to make this scheme fair.
Despite 1 in 50 people from South Asian communities living in the UK being at risk of hepatitis C, uptake of testing services remains low. We work to ensure that South Asian communities across the country have access to education, testing and treatment for hepatitis C.
A big thanks to Jamia Ghosia Masjid in Blackburn for having us along for a great testing event in January!
Last week, we attended @careermattersuk 's Lived Experience Charter Awards 2026 in Birmingham, and were delighted to see our Eastern Region Prison and Community Team receive the highest award – gold!
The Lived Experience Charter is an award that providers of NHS England services, social care and public sectors services can apply to complete and receive. Having Lived Experience Charter ‘status’, demonstrates that organisations have quality standards, good practices and a commitment to improving the inclusive recruitment and retention practices of people with lived experience.
