Author: Stefan Boscia

LONDON — Changes to the U.K.’s infected blood scandal compensation scheme will require significantly more money than originally thought — just as the new government faces multiple spending pressures. The U.K. government confirmed Friday that it will provide life-long payments to people swept up in what has been dubbed Britain’s worst health scandal. Tens of thousands of people, including hemophiliacs and others receiving blood transfusions, were infected with HIV and/or Hepatitis C as a result of contaminated blood products used by the state in the 1970s and 1980s. The last, Conservative-led government accepted a damning inquiry’s call for compensation, but…