Infected Blood Compensation Authority

Is gradually setting itself up, but we have these concerns

For IBCA and from claimants unanswered questions were/are

1.    Where are IBCA contact lists?

2.    Where is their assessor training infos?

3.    What input will Inquiry veterans such as expert legal teams have?

4.    The need for evolving compo to match evolving morbidity is to be addressed?

5.    The need for definitions of what notes equals a transfusion record?

6.    What notes equal an admission of evidence of transmission?

7.    What notes equal morbidities?

8.    Are the 3 viruses actually understood e.g. there are 20 non liver ailments attendant to viral Hepatitis?

9.    Is the Transfusion Industry actually understood, usage of IV immunoglobin, Plasma, Red Blood, Equipment's, Clotting Factors, Platelets? Is there a wall chart of how 2.5 million units are distributed annually?

10. How extensive is the list of known abbreviations in notes for all transfusion possibility of Transmission and morbidity? We sent a list but received no data on its inclusion!

11. How extensive is the list of maximum order of blood scheduling and the patient conditions known to be transfused e.g. underweight baby, anaemic mum and their abbreviations. Again, we sent a list but received no data on its inclusion!

12. How extensive is the list of known morbidity outcomes and their abbreviations eg if a acute hbv mom foregoes kids thinking she has hbv where is the compo value?

13. What happens to chronic hbv that 0.7% a year clears but damages?

14. Has anyone imagined what being told you are a 100 times more infectious than HIV may cause?

15. What is role of testimony sans notes?

16. What is role of scars and morbidity sans notes?

17. What is role of above 2 with partial notes?

18. What timespan of help per case is given across GP notes Hospital notes testimony notes?

19. How are claim pending trays structured?

20. Is extra support levels ready for disabled mentally physically?

21. Like myself who went from decompensated cirrhosis in 2005 to a perfect liver in 2025 what help?

Does the IBCA understand……..

1.    HCV causes bile duct kidney and blood cancer?

2.    HBCAB transfusions (which stopped in 2022) killed from 1971 and during Inquiry?

3.    A HBCAB caller from yesterday needs lifelong HBV meds for steroid based reactivation?

4.    2% of HCV transfusions were infectious in the only decent studies done?

5.    HBEAG is far more deadly than HBSAG?

6.    Hep D super infection on top of Hep B is very deadly?

7.    Hep B was 30% overlooked by 1970’s tests and 5% overlooked by 1980’s tests?

8.    Acute Hep B plus chronic Hep C was far more deadly to victims?

IBCA Outreach Questions

1.    What adverts are to be placed from a £10 billion budget to find the infected?

2.    To date even the A n E testing 6000 new diagnosis have zero structure for infected blood advice. (73% tested in A n E had never been tested before)

3.    90% of exhibition attendees who mention infected blood in their lives plus one on Wednesday since 2010 say they don’t apply for compo? With PPI it was clear people need good advertising to claim.

4.     Can IBCA advise key national charities affected of its job roles and structures and vacancies, so as to maintain balance and avoid exclusion

The concern of nothing for acute HBV, the virus that 

1.    kills 1% (10 million globally) with acute stage gets nothing,

2.    many acute HBV live lives assuming they are infected 

3.    many acute HBV reactivate and die on everything from steroids to HCV meds, from immunosuppressant's for HIV to chemo for liver cancer. 

4.    many on long term steroids/immunosuppressant's need lifelong HBV meds