What about other special schemes set up by government – e.g. for vaccine damaged children, for vCJD families – why can they do something similar for people with haemophilia and HCV?
The vCJD no fault compensation scheme is similar to the Macfarlane Trust in that litigation has been settled and money paid into a Trust to be distributed to the victims. As with the Macfarlane Trust, this came about through a combination of public lobbying and the pressure of litigation. The Vaccine Damage Payments Act was passed in 1987 in part to try to avoid the difficulties faced in previous pharmaceutical litigation, particularly the thalidomide cases. It was intended to provide compensation where children were injured as a result of certain vaccines, without having to prove the link between the vaccination and the injury to the same standard as that required in litigation. It was hoped that it would provide some compensation (currently £100,000) without the need to go through the rigours and strains of litigation. In principle, there is no reason why the government cannot establish such a scheme for those with haemophilia and HCV. It is entirely within the discretion of the gove
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