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Hello and

welcome to Coffee House Shots. I'm James Hill and I'm joined today by Katie

Balls and Isabel Hardman. Now today the big story is of course the

tainted blood inquiry which is finally reported after seven years.

Katie wrote our lunchtime blog for us.

Tell us what the key recommendations of Sir Brian Longstaff's report say.

So there's 12 recommendations in total,

but I think probably to understand the recommendations is interesting to go back to what the, you know, the findings of the report were and you know, I think we can overuse the word damning when we talk about reports and this is an incredibly damning report and I think is confirming the sense that this we've wanted to the biggest scandals in our lifetime probably one the biggest NHS scandals if not the biggest and the

worst ever has been described as and of course this all relates to the period

between the 70s and the 19th in which you had 30,000 individuals have an issue in terms of

contaminated blood after going about transfusion or using these products, 3,000 around have already passed away as a result of those,

30,000 infected, and clearly a lot of time has passed between when this occurred and where we are now which is the public inquiry and of course talk of potential compensation.

And when it comes to the findings of the report, I think probably the one that's picking up the

you know lots of headlines today is that it could largely not entirely have been

avoided and the 2,527 page report also finds that the life-shattering scandal

for many affected was made worse by a subtle pervasive and chilling cover-up and

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