After decades of buck-passing and over 3000 deaths the infected blood inquiry published its final report finding that patients were betrayed by 'cover-up'. The chairman of the inquiry said the ‘scale of what happened is horrifying’ and the prime minister has apologised. So, as ministers prepare to pay out billions of pounds in compensation, will this be enough for the families of those affected? Has justice finally been achieved? We ask Sunday Times’s Caroline Wheeler, who helped bring the inquiry about.

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Guest: Caroline Wheeler, Political Editor, The Sunday Times.

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A bloody disgrace: How the infected blood victims were betrayed by a cover-up

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A bloody disgrace: How the infected blood victims were betrayed by a cover-up