Was a disaster not an accident, that those in authority, doctors, Blood Services and governments did not put Patient Safety first and that patients were knowingly exposed to unacceptable risks of infection. Andy evans has haemophilia, a Bleeding Disorder. He is one of 30,000 people infected by the treatment he received. By the time he was five years old he had hiv and hepatitis c, and at 13 he had developed full blown aids. No, if that is for me of my remarkable team, thank you. Applause. But you are actually applauding the wrong people. This is your report. Aim i may have done the words, certainly the errors and omissions are all mine. 0ne certainly the errors and omissions are all mine. One of them has already been pointed out to me this morning by one of you. But the words can from you and your stories. I want you please in a moment to give me an applause at least as long and probably longer, standing if you would if you can, to those who are really responsible for what is in this r
entries suggest that sir patrick vallance had said that a number of ministers were trying to in essence use science to make decisions so they didn t have to make decisions themselves, and there isn t a great structure in that. the point of the inquiry is to learn how to make those decisions, should they need to be made again. there are questions for scientists as well. we have heard in this inquiry, back in february 20 20, six weeks before the uk finally went into lockdown, that there were those in downing street, particularly borisjohnson, who maybe were not taking covid as seriously as they might or should duff done considering what ended up happening, so there are questions to the scientists, had you understood the scientists, had you understood the virus sufficiently and should you have worn people earlier? that could have had a different outcome in terms of restrictions being made earlier and different outcomes to what happened. h0??? earlier and different outcomes to wh
lockdown inviting them to a bring your own booze party to which about 30 or a0 people turned up in the gardens in lockdown. that was breaching rules because of the time you are only allowed to meet with one other person from outside your household outside. even that day, government officials had been on television warning people that those were the rules. so it was seen very much as a real embarrassment at the very least to the government at the time, orwhen very least to the government at the time, or when it came out, rather, a year later. so they will be no doubt that will be talked about in question today in the inquiry. then we will be hearing from lee cain, the director of communications for the director of communications for the prime minister, and that is going to be significant also, because we have also had an indication of the private correspondence going on between lee cain and other senior officials during that time which gives you a bit of a glimpse of some of t
Mislaid more than half a million pieces of confidential medical correspondence, including Cancer Test Results and treatment plans. We will bring you the story. Heresjoanna in the bbc newsroom with a summary of todays news. The independent inquiry into child sexual abuse in england and wales will hold its first Public Hearings Today, more than two and a half years after it was set up by the government. It will begin by examining the mistreatment of british children in Care Orfrom Poorfamilies who were sent to australia in the years after the second world war. The inquiry will be told that the scale of abuse they suffered was much wider than previously thought. Organisers of this years oscars say theyre still trying to work out how the ceremony ended in chaos, after the wrong film was named best picture. The hollywood musical la la land was mistakenly revealed as the winner, but during the acceptance speeches it was discovered the award should have gone to moonlight, which is a drama abo
Mislaid more than half a million pieces of confidential medical correspondence, including Cancer Test Results and treatment plans. We will bring you the story. Heresjoanna in the bbc newsroom with a summary of todays news. The independent inquiry into child sexual abuse in england and wales will hold its first Public Hearings Today, more than two and a half years after it was set up by the government. It will begin by examining the mistreatment of british children in Care Orfrom Poorfamilies who were sent to australia in the years after the second world war. The inquiry will be told that the scale of abuse they suffered was much wider than previously thought. Organisers of this years oscars say theyre still trying to work out how the ceremony ended in chaos, after the wrong film was named best picture. The hollywood musical la la land was mistakenly revealed as the winner, but during the acceptance speeches it was discovered the award should have gone to moonlight, which is a drama abo