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Scotsman
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Scotsman
What time is The British Blood Scandal on ITV? Explained
The British Blood Scandal: Poisoned at School will be broadcast by ITV tonight (May 20) 📺 Sign up to our Arts and Culture newsletter Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... ITV is shining a light on The British Blood Scandal. Poisoned at School is set to premiere on TV. But what time will it be on - and what to expect? A new documentary about the 'worst medical disaster in NHS history' is set to air on TV this evening. Following survivors of the 'hushed-up' scandal, it will detail their battle for the truth and justice. The British Blood Scandal: Poisoned at School is set to be broadcast by ITV and STV in the coming hours. It will reveal the true stories of the students at Lord Mayor Treloar College, many of whom were left with Hepatitis and HIV. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad But how can you watch the documentary - and what to expect from it? Here's all you need to know: What time is The British Blood Scandal on TV? The documentary is set to start at 9pm this evening (May 20), the broadcaster has confirmed. It will air on ITV1/ STV and will run for approximately an hour, including adverts. The British Blood Scandal: Poisoned at School. (L-R) Gary Webster, Steve Nicholls, Richard Warwick and Adrain Goodyear at Treloar's school. | ITV Is The British Blood Scandal a true story? The documentary recounts the experiences of a group of men, now in their 50s, who have returned to Lord Mayor Treloar College decades after attending the boarding school in the hopes of having a 'normal childhood' as haemophiliac children. However instead they became victims of medical research at an NHS medical centre based at the college, and blood products which left many of them with Hepatitis and HIV. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad They recall how, in the late 1970s, an NHS haemophiliac unit was opened at the college, which meant they and their friends could rapidly receive a revolutionary treatment – Factor VIII – on site. The pupils and their parents thought Factor Concentrates were a miracle cure, but they later discovered they were a death sentence for many and led to the co-infection of around 1,250 haemophiliacs nationwide with HIV and Hepatitis C, and another 2,400 to 5,000 people developing Hepatitis C on its own. Steve Nicholls said: 'I feel like we were groomed to conform, we were given all these fantastic opportunities, that's what we'd focus on. We'd love to play for six or eight hours a day, go sailing, go fishing, come back and hold our arm out for half an hour to have an injection, it was a trade-off and it was the norm most days. We're not talking about having an injection every fortnight, it was most days.' Gary Webster added: 'If you did miss it, sick bay would then report it to your housemaster and you got punished.' Of the 122 haemophiliacs who attended Treloar's in the 1970s and 1980s, only around 30 are still alive today. The men have spent decades fighting for truth and justice and the film follows their journey leading up to the final report of the public inquiry, where they hope for long-awaited recognition of the truth. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Treloar's said: 'We sincerely apologise to our former students and their families who were so devastatingly infected and affected by the infected blood scandal. The treatment by clinicians of pupils at Treloar's in the 1970s and 1980s was unethical and wrong.' ITV is also working on a dramatic series based on the infected blood scandal. Deadline reported last year that BAFTA-winning scribe Peter Moffat is penning the series.
Scotsman
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Scotsman
What time is The British Blood Scandal on ITV? Explained
The British Blood Scandal: Poisoned at School will be broadcast by ITV tonight (May 20) 📺 Sign up to our daily newsletter Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Edinburgh News, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... ITV is shining a light on The British Blood Scandal. Poisoned at School is set to premiere on TV. But what time will it be on - and what to expect? A new documentary about the 'worst medical disaster in NHS history' is set to air on TV this evening. Following survivors of the 'hushed-up' scandal, it will detail their battle for the truth and justice. The British Blood Scandal: Poisoned at School is set to be broadcast by ITV and STV in the coming hours. It will reveal the true stories of the students at Lord Mayor Treloar College, many of whom were left with Hepatitis and HIV. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad But how can you watch the documentary - and what to expect from it? Here's all you need to know: What time is The British Blood Scandal on TV? The documentary is set to start at 9pm this evening (May 20), the broadcaster has confirmed. It will air on ITV1/ STV and will run for approximately an hour, including adverts. The British Blood Scandal: Poisoned at School. (L-R) Gary Webster, Steve Nicholls, Richard Warwick and Adrain Goodyear at Treloar's school. | ITV Is The British Blood Scandal a true story? The documentary recounts the experiences of a group of men, now in their 50s, who have returned to Lord Mayor Treloar College decades after attending the boarding school in the hopes of having a 'normal childhood' as haemophiliac children. However instead they became victims of medical research at an NHS medical centre based at the college, and blood products which left many of them with Hepatitis and HIV. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad They recall how, in the late 1970s, an NHS haemophiliac unit was opened at the college, which meant they and their friends could rapidly receive a revolutionary treatment – Factor VIII – on site. The pupils and their parents thought Factor Concentrates were a miracle cure, but they later discovered they were a death sentence for many and led to the co-infection of around 1,250 haemophiliacs nationwide with HIV and Hepatitis C, and another 2,400 to 5,000 people developing Hepatitis C on its own. Steve Nicholls said: 'I feel like we were groomed to conform, we were given all these fantastic opportunities, that's what we'd focus on. We'd love to play for six or eight hours a day, go sailing, go fishing, come back and hold our arm out for half an hour to have an injection, it was a trade-off and it was the norm most days. We're not talking about having an injection every fortnight, it was most days.' Gary Webster added: 'If you did miss it, sick bay would then report it to your housemaster and you got punished.' Of the 122 haemophiliacs who attended Treloar's in the 1970s and 1980s, only around 30 are still alive today. The men have spent decades fighting for truth and justice and the film follows their journey leading up to the final report of the public inquiry, where they hope for long-awaited recognition of the truth. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Treloar's said: 'We sincerely apologise to our former students and their families who were so devastatingly infected and affected by the infected blood scandal. The treatment by clinicians of pupils at Treloar's in the 1970s and 1980s was unethical and wrong.' ITV is also working on a dramatic series based on the infected blood scandal. Deadline reported last year that BAFTA-winning scribe Peter Moffat is penning the series. Have you got a story you want to share with our readers? You can now send it to us online via YourWorld at . It's free to use and, once checked, your story will appear on our website and, space allowing, in our newspapers.
Metro
09-05-2025
- Health
- Metro
'People will die before they get compensation from the Infected Blood Scandal'
Cressida Haughton (left) lost her father Derek and Deborah Dennis her husband Barrie after they were infected by blood plasma (Picture: Jeff Moore/PA Wire) A victim of the Infected Blood Scandal has accused the government of 'playing a waiting game' in paying compensation. Steve Nicholls, 58, from Surrey, is one of the about 122 infected schoolboys who went to Treloars, a school for disabled children in Hampshire. He was left with hepatitis A, B, C and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) as a result of the injections he was given. Eighty of the boys have died, he said. He is now calling on the Government to speed up its payouts to the victims and families of those who have died, adding that he fears people will die before they get compensation. More than 30,000 people in the UK were infected with hepatitis and HIV after they were given contaminated blood products in the 1970s and 1980s without their knowledge, now known as the Infected Blood Scandal. The school said it was unaware that the blood products were infected with HIV and hepatitis C and has since apologised to the victims and their families. To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Up Next Previous Page Next Page Over 3,000 infected people have died since, and the number keeps rising after one of the biggest scandals affecting the NHS. The victims included boys with haemophilia attending Treloars school, where they were infected without their parents' consent. The service engineer, who went to the school when he was nine, told Metro: 'I got all the infections from Treloars, but I didn't find out until I was 25. I managed to hold down a full-time job, as all the boys did. ' However, at about 40, his health 'started to crash.' Meanwhile, his mum and dad – like hundreds of other parents of the infected – felt 'tremendously guilty' as they unknowingly 'could have signed us up for medical research' and his mum gave him the injections prescribed by doctors. Steve, who is married and has grown-up children, said he feels 'fatigued' and 'very tired, but I will not let this go until I see justice' after 40 years. Steve Nicholls, 58, from Surrey, was infected with hepatitis A, B and C and a blood clotting disease by blood products given to him at the Treloars School (Picture: PA) He described the delay in compensation as 'completely unacceptable' He continued: 'If people pass away before they make a claim for compensation, in many cases that compensation claim dies with them. 'It's hard to draw any conclusion that the government is playing a waiting game. It should be much simpler and faster.' He said the infection scandal has had 'a massive impact' on this family and other victims who 'continue to suffer today.' Following years of tireless campaigning by victims and their loved ones, the scandal made headlines, leading to an official inquiry led by Sir Brian Langstaff. Bombshell documents previously revealed how children were compared to chimpanzees by government-funded agencies as part of their plans to use blood plasma known as Factor VIII. Stuart Cantrill lost his dad (pictured) to AIDS at the age of 15 after his father was infected with HIV he got from blood products (Picture: Stuart Cantrill) The inquiry heard that documents from 1970 reveal how the scientists working on the research knew that the Factor blood products 'have been found to transmit this form of hepatitis to chimpanzees,' yet they still sent the products to the school and did not inform them. The infected plasma was bought from the US, where pharmaceutical companies had sourced the blood by mixing it from prisoners and paid donors. It was then sold to hospitals and schools for haemophiliac children in the UK. To make matters worse, the details of the infections were widely covered up, the a report found last year. While the inquiry concluded last May and found there were 'catalogue of failures' with 'catastrophic' consequences, the gruelling wait for compensation continues for many. Danielle Mullan holds a picture of her mum Marie Cromie, who died on July 4, 2023 after being infected with hepatitis C from infected blood products (Picture: Liam McBurney/PA Wire) Last year, former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak described the inquiry's findings as a 'day of shame' for the state. Further hearings on the government's response to compensation were held this week, with victims and campaigners speaking on Wednesday and yesterday. Nick Thomas-Symonds, a Cabinet Office minister, was heckled when he gave evidence. He apologised and told the victims and families in the room that the 'government has failed you over decades on behalf of the state. I am sorry.' When he was asked whether both victims and affected people will die before compensation, he said 'yes.' The government has said it has paid £80,000,000 in compensation out of the £11,800,000,000 in total. Steve, who has been campaigning for the infected, said the morale is 'at an all-time low.' Former students of Treloars School (from left to right): Adrian Goodyear, Richard Warwick, Steve Nicholls, and Gary Webster (Picture: PA) He said they could 'see the light at the end of the tunnel' last year when the initial inquiry concluded – but the relief was short-lived. Speaking from the hearing during a break, he told Metro: 'We felt validated and recognised, we have fought for over 40 years to be recognised, and we thought we had achieved it and the rest would follow very quickly. 'But within two days, the government had called the General Election, and we knew we were in trouble and could see delays.' 'Our numbers are diminishing fast,' he added. The relatives of victims of the blood scandal posed with the final report last year (Picture: AFP/Images) What happens next for victims? The compensation service is set to open up to around 100 people each week, the independent compensation body told Metro. A spokesperson for the Infected Blood Compensation Authority said: 'Those impacted by the infected blood scandal have waited decades for recognition and compensation, and that's why our priority remains paying as many people as soon as possible. We thank the Infected Blood Inquiry and all those who gave evidence across the two days of further hearings. 'We have started small, learning from each person making a claim, and have continued to build these learnings into our claim service as we have grown. So far, 677 people have been asked to start their compensation claim and this number continues to grow, with more than £90 million offered in compensation. To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Up Next Previous Page Next Page 'We are now opening our service to around 100 people every week. We expect that every living and infected person registered with a support scheme will be able to start their claim by the end of 2025, and we are working through these as quickly as possible.' Treloars School said in a statement: 'With additional hearings being held this week to address the timeliness and adequacy of the Government's response to compensation following the publication of the Infected Blood Inquiry's report 12 months ago, we would like to reiterate the call we made at that time to implement compensation plans without further delay. 'The Inquiry's report laid bare the full extent of this horrifying national scandal. We are deeply saddened that some of our former pupils were so tragically infected and their families affected, and we share our former students' frustration with the time it is taking for compensation to be paid. 'Separately, we are actively working with our former students and their families to deliver a lasting memorial to those who received infected blood products.' Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at webnews@ For more stories like this, check our news page. Arrow MORE: Leeds United fan, 23, in coma after falling from tree during club's promotion parade Arrow MORE: Woman quit over results of 'which Star Wars character are you?' personality quiz Arrow MORE: US warned to prepare as bird flu 'absolutely could be the next pandemic'
BBC News
07-05-2025
- Health
- BBC News
Infected blood scandal: Farnham man criticises compensation speed
'We fear we will die before infected blood justice' 9 minutes ago Share Save Julia Gregory BBC News, Farnham Patrick Barlow and Craig Buchan BBC News, South East Share Save Julia Gregory / BBC Steve Nicholls says he fears he will die before seeing justice after being injected with infected blood in the 1970s and 1980s. A Surrey man who was injected with infected blood at a boarding school says he worries he will die before seeing justice. Steve Nicholls, 58, who lives near Farnham, became infected with hepatitis C and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) after unknowingly taking part in medical trials at Treloar's School in Alton, Hampshire, in the 1970s and 1980s. Further hearings of the Infected Blood Inquiry, beginning on Wednesday, will focus on the government's response to compensation for those affected by the scandal, with Mr Nicholls adding there had been "very little progress" on the scheme. A government spokesperson said infected blood victims had suffered "unspeakably" and that it remains committed to cooperating with the inquiry. Mr Nicholls, a retired service engineer, went to Treloar's School while being treated for haemophilia alongside about 120 children who were also infected. About 80 of those infected have died, with Mr Nicholls saying he is representing them and their families. He added: "We knew that this was a tragedy that was no accident and we would fight to get the truth told. Whoever was left would fight and fight and fight." Mr Nicholls said: "We all feel very, very scared that we are going to die before we see justice or any compensation." Students at the school were unknowingly included in secret trials of blood products imported from America, some of which were infected with HIV and hepatitis. Mr Nicholls said that, following the publishing of Sir Brian Langstaff's report into the scandal in May 2024, victims felt "recognised and validated" but there had been little progress in paying out compensation since. A government spokesperson says it has paid £80 million in compensation out of a total £11.8 billion earmarked for compensation having given itself until the end of 2029 to make payments. More than 30,000 people contracted HIV and hepatitis from contaminated blood products in the 1970s and 80s – and 3,000 people have since died. PA Media Infected blood campaigners called for recognition of victims of the scandal The government spokesperson added: "The victims of this scandal have suffered unspeakably. "We remain fully committed to cooperating with the Inquiry, are acting on its recommendations, and are grateful for its work to date." A spokesperson for Treloar's School says it "sincerely apologises to our former students and their families who were so devastatingly infected and affected by the infected blood scandal". They added: "The inquiry's report lays bare the full extent of this horrifying national scandal. We are deeply saddened that some of our former pupils were so tragically infected and their families affected and we expect the government to implement its compensation plans without further delay." The school has also backed plans for a public memorial to former pupils who died as a result of the infected blood scandal. Follow BBC Surrey on Facebook, on X, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@ or WhatsApp us on 08081 002250.
