Outrage as victims of blood scandal face further wait for compensation

Victims of the contaminated blood scandal are furious, after the Chancellor made no reference to compensation for them in his Spending Review.

It's been called the worst treatment scandal in the NHS's history, and has claimed thousands of lives.

Now, victims who were given infected blood products - some infected by HIV and Hepatitis - say they have been overlooked again.

Mike Dorricott, from Sedburgh in Cumbria, was one such victim.

He experienced years of health complications after being infected with HIV, in a botched NHS blood transfusion.

He died of liver cancer earlier this year, and will never meet his unborn grandson:

Families of victims like Mike Dorricott feel compensation could make their lives easier, and are outraged to have been overlooked in the Autumn Statement:

In the 1970s and 1980s British patients were treated with blood products imported from America.

But much of the blood had been taken from high risk donors like drug addicts and prisoners.

Around 6,000 people are known to have been affected with HIV and Hepatitis C.

Already, 2,000 have died.

It is up to the Department of Health to develop a new funding package for victims: