First we need to highlight which actions can be deemed as medical policy and practice negligence, these basically amount to the following list of actions or lack of actions.
Our Health Service has produced numerous highly misleading documents regarding the scale of its Hepatitis C Infections
It carried on poor procedures for protecting the blood supply from contamination and refused to admit they happened
From 1995 to 2017 it has grossly failed to test for HCV and HBV prevalence in its patient groups and general population
It has failed to admit the contaminated blood risk to those that ran that risk
It has failed to properly and test them for 28 years
There are numerous phony guesstimate medical articles and letters on file
It has destroyed the transfusion records and is implicated in destroying political files related to the disaster
It has failed to comprehensively search for those already diagnosed non a and non b throughout the Nineties and Noughties
It has pretended the bulk of the infections are from injecting drug use when the national prevalence of 1% in 1995 pointed otherwise
Consequences of this criminal negligence are
100,000 plus NHS HCV infected patient survivors have on the whole been left without medical care for 3 decades
Their risk of Contaminated Blood related illness has grown with every year they have been marginalised
Those diagnosed are faced with the stigma of having an addict associated infection
The 2 million at risk of infection have never been warned
150,000 people have died with HCV since 1985 and we will never know how many because of NHS HCV
We have the second largest boom (300%) in Liver Cirrhosis and Cancer in the EU during a period of stable alcohol usageWe have NHS venues testing 3 to 4% positive for viral hepatitis and hardly a General Practitioner knows or has tools to help
We have 10 million newly arrived people from more HBV and HCV infected regions who have not been tested
We have 4 million children in need of HBV vaccination who have not received it
We have extremely poor blood hygiene routines throughout our society
Basically a deadly epidemic 10 times the size of HIV AIDS has yet to gain public awareness