Comments on: Skipton Fund Appeals - New Group http://www.hepcboy.com/archives/81 hepatitis c blog Wed, 08 Feb 2012 07:37:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: HepCsucks http://www.hepcboy.com/archives/81#comment-62406 HepCsucks Fri, 29 Oct 2010 14:13:35 +0000 http://www.hepcboy.com/?p=81#comment-62406 I have Hep C got via a blood transfusion. i have had six months treatment, failed to clear it! So the treatment was stopped. In the meantime something to think about! Hep C was given to numerous people by the British Government through contaminated blood, bought into the UK from various sources around the world. The Mail did an article a few weeks ago with what went on in regard to America, and Big Business, supplying blood from ANY source regardless of wether its good, bad, mainly American and Mexican Jails. Also this came to light.  Apparently even from Dead Russian people! (hard to believe but apparently true) (mail) In main land Britain if your lucky you might get compensation of 20k for having your life buggered up! I think the following statement issued needs some explanation as to why British Hep C sufferers only get 20k for having their life's wrecked and Irish get £750k Or have I read this wrong? ------------------------------------------------------------ Estimating the cost of implementing the Republic of Ireland’s Hepatitis C and HIV compensation scheme in the UK.  UK estimate of £3.5 billion We did not use the figures quoted on page 88 of the report of Lord Archer of Sandwell’s Independent Inquiry into NHS Supplied Contaminated Blood and Blood Products when estimating the cost to the UK of implementing in the UK a scheme similar to the one operating in the Republic of Ireland (RoI). We do not know how many people in total were infected with HIV and/or hepatitis C by contaminated blood and blood products in the UK, how many of them are still alive, or how many widowed spouses there are. However, we used Lord Archer's estimate that around 4,700 were infected (p.5 of his report). We assumed that infected individuals in RoI received an average payment of £750,000. This was based on informal discussions with colleagues in RoI, which indicated that individual payments to infected individuals in RoI ranged between £500,000 and £1 million. The figure of £750,000 is the average of those two figures. Thus, a £750,000 average award to an infected individual in the RoI multiplied by the estimated 4,700 infected individuals here in the UK gave a total UK cost estimate of £3.525 billion for infected individuals only. This figure does not include an element for UK carers and dependants, which would further increase this total. The previous Government explained this in an answer to a Parliamentary Question published on 29 March 2010 (Column WA347).  I have Hep C got via a blood transfusion.
i have had six months treatment, failed to clear it!
So the treatment was stopped.

In the meantime something to think about!

Hep C was given to numerous people by the British Government through contaminated blood, bought into the UK from various sources around the world.
The Mail did an article a few weeks ago with what went on in regard to America, and Big Business, supplying blood from ANY source regardless of wether its good, bad, mainly American and Mexican Jails.
Also this came to light. 
Apparently even from Dead Russian people! (hard to believe but apparently true) (mail)

In main land Britain if your lucky you might get compensation of 20k for having your life buggered up!

I think the following statement issued needs some explanation as to why British Hep C sufferers only get 20k for having their life’s wrecked and Irish get £750k
Or have I read this wrong?

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Estimating the cost of implementing the Republic of Ireland’s Hepatitis C and HIV compensation scheme in the UK.
 UK estimate of £3.5 billion We did not use the figures quoted on page 88 of the report of Lord Archer of Sandwell’s Independent Inquiry into NHS Supplied Contaminated Blood and Blood Products when estimating the cost to the UK of implementing in the UK a scheme similar to the one operating in the Republic of Ireland (RoI).
We do not know how many people in total were infected with HIV and/or hepatitis C by contaminated blood and blood products in the UK, how many of them are still alive, or how many widowed spouses there are.
However, we used Lord Archer’s estimate that around 4,700 were infected (p.5 of his report).
We assumed that infected individuals in RoI received an average payment of £750,000.
This was based on informal discussions with colleagues in RoI, which indicated that individual payments to infected individuals in RoI ranged between £500,000 and £1 million.
The figure of £750,000 is the average of those two figures.
Thus, a £750,000 average award to an infected individual in the RoI multiplied by the estimated 4,700 infected individuals here in the UK gave a total UK cost estimate of £3.525 billion for infected individuals only.
This figure does not include an element for UK carers and dependants, which would further increase this total. The previous Government explained this in an answer to a Parliamentary Question published on 29 March 2010 (Column WA347). 

]]> By: Hayzel Eyes http://www.hepcboy.com/archives/81#comment-57846 Hayzel Eyes Tue, 25 May 2010 09:13:34 +0000 http://www.hepcboy.com/?p=81#comment-57846 Im feeling really anxious i had serveral blood transfusions 1986 and contracted hep c from that,i have requested medical records!! i have applied to the fund and find out today if i am elegible for a payment!!!!! Im feeling really anxious i had serveral blood transfusions 1986 and contracted hep c from that,i have requested medical records!! i have applied to the fund and find out today if i am elegible for a payment!!!!!

]]> By: mel http://www.hepcboy.com/archives/81#comment-56014 mel Fri, 26 Mar 2010 18:59:24 +0000 http://www.hepcboy.com/?p=81#comment-56014 I think we did to sign petitions go to goverment............. its outrageous we need help now to prove our cases ..........important notes iof mine were destroyed by Salisbury Hospital,,,,,, I had many anti d......... 9 major operations.......... hamoprotiens are used to help heal but do we know what they really get up when under the knife... I had IVF treatment on three occassions My sucsess was a son in 2001 he was born by ceasarian section a very low risk for mother to child ....but he got hep c..... i had a 3 mth dabble of drugs in 86 but i know for certain I did not get hep c then.. and the freinds i hung out with then i still do today and they do not have hep c..............The people bloody checking us out most probably dabbled !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!If I was a true drug/ alcohol abuser id accept my fate but im not and never was.......Yes Mr Fish is very freindly but its not up to him !!!........and he does the searching on the computer I think we did to sign petitions go to goverment…………. its outrageous we need help now to prove our cases ……….important notes iof mine were destroyed by Salisbury Hospital,,,,,, I had many anti d……… 9 major operations………. hamoprotiens are used to help heal but do we know what they really get up when under the knife… I had IVF treatment on three occassions My sucsess was a son in 2001 he was born by ceasarian section a very low risk for mother to child ….but he got hep c…..
i had a 3 mth dabble of drugs in 86 but i know for certain I did not get hep c then.. and the freinds i hung out with then i still do today and they do not have hep c…………..The people bloody checking us out most probably dabbled !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!If I was a true drug/ alcohol abuser id accept my fate but im not and never was…….Yes Mr Fish is very freindly but its not up to him !!!……..and he does the searching on the computer

]]> By: Richard http://www.hepcboy.com/archives/81#comment-47041 Richard Sun, 23 Aug 2009 23:01:28 +0000 http://www.hepcboy.com/?p=81#comment-47041 Lynn, I am in the same boat too. Doctors and hospital says I got HepC from Nhs blood but hospitals say they have destropyed all records from the 1970's. Don't know what I can do now. Just finished a year of treatment and at least i am now clear. Richard Lynn,
I am in the same boat too. Doctors and hospital says I got HepC from Nhs blood but hospitals say they have destropyed all records from the 1970’s. Don’t know what I can do now. Just finished a year of treatment and at least i am now clear. Richard

]]> By: Lynn http://www.hepcboy.com/archives/81#comment-46152 Lynn Fri, 07 Aug 2009 07:46:44 +0000 http://www.hepcboy.com/?p=81#comment-46152 Lynn, these parliment pen-pushers are not the ones living with Hep C and all the wonderfull things that go alongside of it! The initial shock and fear of the future that you may have to face are enough to make some of them run a mile. What would they do if faced with the stigma attached, treatments involved+side effects and all of the symptoms? The stigma would certainly have an effect on their ego's... I,m in a similar situation to you, as the hospital records have disappeared. If there is us then there must be a lot more people out ther the same so by persistance alone maybe we will get somewhere. I wish you well. Lynn, these parliment pen-pushers are not the ones living with Hep C and all the wonderfull things that go alongside of it! The initial shock and fear of the future that you may have to face are enough to make some of them run a mile. What would they do if faced with the stigma attached, treatments involved+side effects and all of the symptoms? The stigma would certainly have an effect on their ego’s… I,m in a similar situation to you, as the hospital records have disappeared. If there is us then there must be a lot more people out ther the same so by persistance alone maybe we will get somewhere. I wish you well.

]]> By: Lynn http://www.hepcboy.com/archives/81#comment-46153 Lynn Fri, 07 Aug 2009 07:46:43 +0000 http://www.hepcboy.com/?p=81#comment-46153 Lynn, these parliment pen-pushers are not the ones living with Hep C and all the wonderfull things that go alongside of it! The initial shock and fear of the future that you may have to face are enough to make some of them run a mile. What would they do if faced with the stigma attached, treatments involved+side effects and all of the symptoms? The stigma would certainly have an effect on their ego's... I,m in a similar situation to you, as the hospital records have disappeared. If there is us then there must be a lot more people out ther the same so by persistance alone maybe we will get somewhere. I wish you well. Lynn, these parliment pen-pushers are not the ones living with Hep C and all the wonderfull things that go alongside of it! The initial shock and fear of the future that you may have to face are enough to make some of them run a mile. What would they do if faced with the stigma attached, treatments involved+side effects and all of the symptoms? The stigma would certainly have an effect on their ego’s… I,m in a similar situation to you, as the hospital records have disappeared. If there is us then there must be a lot more people out ther the same so by persistance alone maybe we will get somewhere. I wish you well.

]]> By: Unfair http://www.hepcboy.com/archives/81#comment-46150 Unfair Fri, 07 Aug 2009 07:24:23 +0000 http://www.hepcboy.com/?p=81#comment-46150 I am so fed up with assumption! I have never used drugs, slept around and have led what i consider to be a ordinary life. My disdemeanor was to drink too much over a fairly short period of time because i couldn't cope with loosing my Dad and my Husband sleeping with my best friend! Through this i developed ascites and when i was rushed into hospital with internal bleeding i was given blood tranfusions. Over the last 10years i have regularly had checkups at the hospital and through this i discovered i had Hep C. Great news eh! Gratefull, non-drinking, passive, clean living, cares too much samaritan,(words of others) feels let down and angry as i do not come into the 'time zone 'created by the government... I am so fed up with assumption! I have never used drugs, slept around and have led what i consider to be a ordinary life. My disdemeanor was to drink too much over a fairly short period of time because i couldn’t cope with loosing my Dad and my Husband sleeping with my best friend! Through this i developed ascites and when i was rushed into hospital with internal bleeding i was given blood tranfusions. Over the last 10years i have regularly had checkups at the hospital and through this i discovered i had Hep C. Great news eh! Gratefull, non-drinking, passive, clean living, cares too much samaritan,(words of others) feels let down and angry as i do not come into the ‘time zone ‘created by the government…

]]> By: Lynn http://www.hepcboy.com/archives/81#comment-44308 Lynn Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:25:33 +0000 http://www.hepcboy.com/?p=81#comment-44308 Ive just been turned down for my claim to the hepc fund by appeal. my doctors says It is more than likely I got hep c from one of my opperations as does the hospital where I had my treatment, the reason is lack of records , no proof. Probability does\'t mean a thing. Ive just been turned down for my claim to the hepc fund by appeal. my doctors says It is more than likely I got hep c from one of my opperations as does the hospital where I had my treatment, the reason is lack of records , no proof. Probability does\’t mean a thing.

]]> By: Facts http://www.hepcboy.com/archives/81#comment-41478 Facts Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:20:19 +0000 http://www.hepcboy.com/?p=81#comment-41478 ps: one CANNOT become infected by a lifestyle. LOL ps:
one CANNOT become infected by a lifestyle. LOL

]]> By: Facts http://www.hepcboy.com/archives/81#comment-41476 Facts Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:17:30 +0000 http://www.hepcboy.com/?p=81#comment-41476 The fact is it is not possible to become infected with Hep C merely by using IV drugs. It is necessary for the equipment used to be contaminated - and considering that from the late 70s -early 80s needles and syringes have been freely available, the sharing of them has been unnecessary. This is propaganda used simply as a government excuse to keep down the costs. I personally know of many IV drug users who wouldn't dream of sharing equipment. It's people like HepCboy who continue this stupid myth! Pathetic!!! The fact is it is not possible to become infected with Hep C merely by using IV drugs. It is necessary for the equipment used to be contaminated - and considering that from the late 70s -early 80s needles and syringes have been freely available, the sharing of them has been unnecessary.
This is propaganda used simply as a government excuse to keep down the costs. I personally know of many IV drug users who wouldn’t dream of sharing equipment.

It’s people like HepCboy who continue this stupid myth! Pathetic!!!

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