Yesterday we joined campaigners to hand-deliver a letter to Boris Johnson urging him to deliver compensation to those affected by the contaminated blood scandal. The scandal has been described as the biggest treatment disaster in the history of the NHS. It resulted from haemophiliacs being given blood products contaminated with HIV and hepatitis C imported from the US in the 1970s and 1980s. The letter was signed by us, as well as the Scottish Infected Blood Forum, The Haemophilia Society, Haemophilia Society NI, The Hepatitis C Trust, and a representative from the community in Wales. It stressed that compensation is a matter of urgency. Since the Infected Blood Inquiry was announced in July 2017, until February this year, 419 people have died. Those who were given infected blood products are dying at a rate of one every four days. This is on top of the devastating death toll before HIV and HCV treatment became available and those who died in the intervening years before the Inquiry was established. Justice must prevail. Via @guardian Image description: Image of of blood products with the headline “Contaminated blood Scandal: Pay infected blood scandal victims before they die, Boris Johnson urged”.