A victim of the contaminated blood scandal with links to Newcastle has slammed the NHS's inability to "learn from its mistakes".
Andrew Bragg, a Newcastle University graduate and chemical engineer who worked for ICI in the North East, suffered a motorcycle crash in Norway in 1986 following his graduation. He underwent extensive surgery in Norway, but following further procedures in the UK - in Blackburn and Liverpool - he contracted hepatitis C from a blood transfusion.
This was not diagnosed for more than a decade - when Mr Bragg fell ill in India on a work trip and investigation by his employer's occupational health team discovered the cause of this illness was undiagnosed hepatitis. He was then referred to the Freeman Hospital.
