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\uff08Campaigners gathered outside the Infected Blood inquiry when the prime minister gave evidence in July.\uff09<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ITV is to follow its hit drama about the Post Office scandal with a new series about what it calls the “biggest health scandal” in British history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Writer Peter Moffat will tell the story behind the contaminated blood scandal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is thought that about 30,000 people were infected with HIV and hepatitis C through contaminated blood products in the 1970s and 1980s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bafta winner Moffat said victims had been “let down” by the state and his show would let “their voices be heard”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The announcement comes after Mr Bates Vs the Post Office drew in more than 10 million viewers and dominated the headlines last month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following an outcry, the government has announced plans for new legislation to quash the convictions of hundreds of people who were wrongly convicted of false accounting, theft and fraud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\uff08The four-part series on the Post Office scandal ran nightly on ITV in January\uff09<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moffat was working on the contaminated blood scandal series before Mr Bates Vs the Post Office was broadcast, but it has now been “fast-tracked” following that show’s “monumental success”, Deadline reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More than 3,000 people are thought to have died in what has been described by MPs as the worst treatment disaster in NHS history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The untitled series will focus on the “courage and dignity of victims and their families who have campaigned for truth, justice and accountability against impossible odds”, according to ITV.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moffat, who is behind dramas including Silk, Criminal Justice, North Square and Your Honour, said: “It’s been a great privilege to meet those infected and affected and to learn about what they have been through.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I’m ashamed to say that when I started researching this story I knew next to nothing about it. I’m even more ashamed that this ignorance is shared by nearly everyone I mention it to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The victims of this scandal have been let down again and again by the state – I hope in some small way this drama can help their voices be heard.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ITV’s head of drama Polly Hill said: “Peter’s scripts are brilliant and do justice to this important story, while bringing it to screen with real clarity and compassion.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Des Collins, senior partner of Collins Solicitors, which represents 1,500 victims and their families, welcomed the news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The series will “expose much of what our clients have endured, not only emotionally and health-wise, but also in terms of shoddy treatment by government, in their decades-long battle for justice during which too many lives have unnecessarily been lost”, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A public inquiry into the contaminated blood scandal heard its final evidence last year. Its chairman Sir Brian Langstaff published his final recommendations for a full compensation scheme for those directly affected by the scandal and their relatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The government has said it accepts the “moral case” for compensation, and interim payouts of \u00a3100,000 each have already been made to about 4,000 victims and some bereaved partners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, in December it said it was still not in a position to make a final decision on compensation until it has seen the inquiry’s findings in full. The publication of the final report has been delayed until May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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