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Macfarlane Trust staff (Macfarlane Trust Handbook 1999) In 2018 monies from the closed trust were transferred to the Terrence Higgins Trust (Image via Macfarlane Trust) The following letter was sent to Ian Green (then) CEO of the Terrence Higgins Trust … Continue reading →

Jan Barlow gave evidence to the Infected Blood Inquiry but had previously ignored Grayson’s email and letter over the proposed scrapping of the Macfarlane Trust (Image via Haemophilia Society) When rumours began to grow in 2016 over proposed scrapping of … Continue reading →

Colette Wintle, a female haemophiliac who has campaigned for decades for truth, justice and compensation pictured with her husband Steve who has joined her on many demonstrations, supporting her giving evidence at 3 inquiries Dear Fraser Nelson, For The Attention … Continue reading →

One of the international awards given to Carol Grayson and Peter Longstaff in recognition of their campaigning and research in 2009 (Image via Grayson) It is with great sadness that I watch the impact on the haemophilia community as some … Continue reading →

Sir Brian Langstaff, Chair of the Infected Blood Inquiry (Image via Haemophilia Society) Dear Mr Brown, I write to you once again as the widow of Peter Longstaff, a haemophiliac who died in 2005 as a result of being given … Continue reading →

Except from a letter from Graham Ross solicitor to Chester Legal Services Commission (10th May, 2000) regarding key evidence not seen as part of an appeal to continue legal aid funding The one thing successive governments have always provided to … Continue reading →

Quote from letter sent to Carol Grayson from Leonard Levy, NHS Executive Headquarters, Department of Health 14th February 1996. Dear George, Thank-you for your article on Contaminated Blood and the cost of compensation. UK faces bill of up to £10bn … Continue reading →

(Image via Shutterstock) Dear Jad, (Haemophilia Twinning Project, Palestine and UK) How are you? I watch with increasing despair the actions of Netanyahu and this new Israeli government and fear the ever growing impact on Palestinian haemophiliacs. As you know … Continue reading →

Baroness Masham, an inspiring campaigner on disability rights Image via Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Baroness_Masham_of_Ilton.jpg It is with sadness that Haemophilia Action UK, long standing campaigners on Contaminated Blood learn of the death of Baroness Sue Masham of Ilton DL. However it … Continue reading →

Extract from Walford/Harley 15th Sept 1980 letter put into the public domain by Grayson and also in her awarded dissertation on Contaminated Blood (2006)/ The letter from the 1991 HIV litigation was not not shown to litigants at that time … Continue reading →