On 20 May 2024, Sir Brian Langstaff published the final report of the Infected Blood Inquiry, on patients infected through contaminated blood and blood products. He wrote: “I have to report a catalogue of failures which caused this to happen.”
He found that “responsibility for much lies with successive governments” and that “clinicians and the health service in particular failed them.” He also wrote: “It was not a tragic accident, in the sense of something that was unavoidable.”