The inquiry into the UK’s National Health Service’s involvement in giving patients blood and blood products contaminated with blood bourne diseases is probably going to turn out to be an even bigger scandal than one concerning the ‘gender transition’ of mentally ill and confused children. The scale of the NHS contaminated blood scandal is absolutely huge. It is said that 30,000 Britons were given contaminated blood or blood products with the result that many of them became infected with diseases such as HIV and Hepatitis.

According to a Sky News report out of that 30,000 people who were given contaminated blood products, 26,800 were infected with Hepatitis with 1,250 infected with HIV and of that number who had contracted HIV, 380 were children. The current death toll from this latest and most serious of the many NHS scandals that Britain has experienced is 2,900. I have little doubt that owing to the nature of these diseases that the death toll may end up rising higher.

The horrors that have been caused to British NHS patients who have been given contaminated blood products are compounded by the fact that the NHS, the adminisphere and governments of all parties, Labour, Tory and the Lib Dem/Tory Coalition going right back to the 1970’s knew that something was wrong with the blood products that Britain was using, but covered this information up. We cannot point to one political party or one or two particular individual politicians being at fault here, it’s all of them. The entire political class is guilty of allowing contaminated blood products to be given to British NHS patients.

The NHS, yes the saintly NHS that thousands of deluded Britons applauded during the Covid Pandemic, is also to blame here. The inquiry chairman, Sir Brian Langstaff, said that the NHS had been involved in “an orchestrated conspiracy to mislead” the public and patients about the dangers posed to patients by contaminated blood products. Sir Brian’s report then went on to state that hospitals like Alder Hey Children’s Hospital were using contaminated blood products on children with Haemophilia even after other centres treating this condition in the UK had stopped using them. Sir Brian also criticised one of Britain’s former experts in haemophilia, Professor Arthur Bloom, who died in 1993, who Sir Brian said was a key figure in Britain’s slow response to the growing problem of contaminated blood products.

Britons have become conditioned to a large extent to worship the NHS, to see it as a benevolent deity that fixes up for free those Britons who have become victims of the vicissitudes of life and disease. However we can now see quite clearly that this idolatry of the NHS is, like the socialist ideology that the NHS sprang from, the god that failed its votaries.

From the Seventies until the mid 1990’s the NHS and the governments of all political parties that administered and controlled Britain’s healthcare system did the square root of sod all to protect those who needed blood products to survive, such as haemophiliacs. The NHS failed to stop contaminated blood products, often from overseas and made with blood donations from drug addicts and prisoners, from getting into the veins of British subjects. Worse than that when it was apparent that there was a problem with blood bourne diseases being present in blood products, the NHS still did nothing.

This is likely to be one of the biggest scandals that the NHS has been involved in and that’s saying something as the NHS is an entity that has for decades been wallowing in medical safety scandals. Scandals such as the 65% of maternity units which are considered as unsafe to the Staffordshire Hospital disaster where patients were starved and dehydrated by staff who couldn’t give a toss about the welfare and safety of patients.

It’s clear that the whole state run healthcare apparatus from the ministers in Whitehall to the doctors on the ground not only screwed up badly over the issue of contaminated blood products but also hid their foul ups from the general public. This appalling example of Britain’s healthcare system from the top to the bottom treating patients like dirt and failing to stop a bad problem from getting as awful as it did should be a lesson for Britons. That lesson is that when the chips are down the NHS and the healthcare bureaucracy will look after its own and say sod you to the patients. This case also raises a pretty big question and that is this: If the NHS were happy to hide not only their errors and the consequences of their errors then what else, what other appalling scandals, are the NHS still hiding?