The final report into the infamous infected blood scandal has found a "subtle, pervasive and chilling cover up" by the NHS and the Government, as 30,000 people were contaminated with infected blood in the 1970s up to the 1990s.

Campaigners have reacted to the report in a press conference and said it was the "worst NHS treatment disaster" in UK history.

The Chairman of the Inquiry Sir Brian Langstaff has said that the destruction caused by the scandal was "not an accident".

After years of delay, the report published today found "those in authority did not put patient safety first" and the Department of Health workers "compounded victims' suffering".