AddressTheHarm®️
The voices that Britain's institutions work hardest to silence finally have a platform. From Home Office failures to police cover-ups, survivors have become unwilling experts in institutional failure. They know what went wrong, why it keeps happening, and how to stop it. But institutions rarely ask them.
On Address The Harm, we do.
Every episode, we centre the voices of those who've experienced institutional harm across multiple sectors - NHS healthcare, social care, safeguarding services, police, family courts, and beyond. These aren't just stories of what went wrong. They're blueprints for what could go right.
Our guests share their insights from experiencing these systems from all sides - as service users, employees, and advocates. They reveal the devastating pattern of institutional self-investigation that re-traumatises survivors while protecting organisational reputation.
Because when institutions finally listen to those they've failed, that's when real accountability becomes possible.
AddressTheHarm®️
Infected Blood Scandal with Andy Evans
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Address The Harm®️ podcast: Andy Evans, Chair of Tainted Blood
Episode description
Andy Evans was infected with HIV and hepatitis C at age five through contaminated haemophilia treatment provided by the NHS. He's one of the few to survive the 42 years since. In 2006, he co-founded Tainted Blood to advocate for the 30,000+ people infected by contaminated blood products in the 1970s and 1980s. About 3,000 have died.
After 18 years of campaigning, the public inquiry reported in May 2024. Rishi Sunak called it "a day of shame for the British state." Documentary evidence was deliberately destroyed. Compensation is finally being paid.
Andy discusses the decades-long cover-up, why 40 years is too long to wait for justice, and his message to other survivors fighting for accountability.
Content warning: This episode discusses difficult topics including violence, abuse, terminal illness, and death. Listener discretion is advised.
Key quotes
"Around about four-fifths of us with HIV are now dead... It's carried a great sense of responsibility because these are people that I met over the years and who are no longer with us."
"For such a long time we were cast aside as conspiracy theorists, that this couldn't happen in the United Kingdom."
"You need to have the publicity, you need to have the recognition, you need to have the understanding of the general public. And only with that can you make progress."
In memoriam
Gareth and Hayden Lewis, Darren Flack, Gary Kelly, Sue Gorman, Mike Dorricott, and all those who fought for justice but didn't live to see it.
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