Health Secretary Wes Streeting is looking at changing the law regarding compensation for people harmed by Covid vaccines amid concern it doesn’t offer enough support. The Telegraph has the story.
Wes Streeting has written to the wife of a man left with permanent brain damage after having the AstraZeneca jab, saying he has “commissioned officials to work up a number of options” to reform the current vaccine damage payment scheme (VDPS).
The letter, sent last month and seen by the Telegraph, adds that this could include “potential legislative changes”.
Families of those who suffered rare reactions to the Covid AstraZeneca vaccination have criticised the VDPS for its limited compensation and high threshold for qualification.
It comes ahead of next week’s sitting of the Covid Inquiry, which will hear evidence from a group representing those injured and bereaved after the vaccinations.
Mr. Streeting revealed the work was being done in a letter following a meeting with Kate Scott, whose husband was left with a permanent brain injury after developing a blood clot and bleed on the brain after having the AstraZeneca jab in April 2021.
Mrs Scott said the VDPS needed “urgent reform” because people were being rejected for not being “disabled enough”.
She added: “There is no other word for this than ludicrous. If your injury equates to just a 10% change, that’s life-changing for you. It might mean you can’t work anymore.
“The Government needs to remember that people took the AstraZeneca vaccine for the greater good and because they were told it was safe and effective. They need to make sure families have proper support”.
Currently, the VDPS only offers a one-off tax-free payment of £120,000 to people who have been severely injured if they reach the level of 60% “disablement” – which is what the current scheme requires.
Data obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show that as of October last year, 183 out of 188 payouts made by the Government under the VDPS went to recipients of the AstraZeneca vaccine.
The data also reveal that 391 people injured by Covid vaccines have been denied payments because they did not meet the 60% threshold, even though medical assessors said the harm was linked to the jabs.
Claims for payments under the VDPS scheme are assessed by the General Medical Council – registered doctors with at least five years of experience.
The system they use to determine claims has been described as “archaic” because it is seen as lending itself more easily to quantifying amputations rather than neurological injuries, which can be more complex. It is derived from pre-Second World War industrial injuries and war pension schemes.
Victoria Atkins, the previous Health Secretary, had asked officials to draw up options for reforming the programme, amid a large increase in the number of claims. …
It is understood that the Government is considering setting up a bespoke scheme for those suffering from life-changing conditions as a result of a reaction to the jab, similar to the scheme for victims of the infected blood scandal.
Sir Jeremy Wright, the former Attorney General who is also Mr. and Mrs Scott’s MP, also called on the Government to reform the scheme, saying there was a “moral case” to ensure families had sufficient support.
Sir Jeremy, who has attended meetings with the Health Secretary about the issue, said: “We would be brave to claim that this is the last time the Government is going to ask for mass vaccination to take place. If they want people to carry on coming forward for vaccination – and I am sure they do – then it’s important to make it clear that if you are in the tiny unlucky minority where you are injured by a vaccine, then you will be looked after.
“That’s particularly the case when the Government has put so much into persuading people to have the Covid vaccine, along with the scale of the vaccination programme.”
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The vaccine program was fraudulent
We need to see mainstream recognition of that and appropriate action against manufacturers, “regulators” and governments
Yes the indemnity wasn’t very vell advertised in all the noise and hysteria from the MSM.
You’re quite right of course… dream on.
Sadly true
Let me go further tof.
The bastards responsible for the fake “vaccination program” deserve one day in court and then prison for life. I am getting angrier by the day with the pussy-footing attitude that effectively does F A.
We can start at the top and work down: Johnson, Hancock, Whiity, Valance and all the bloody rest.
Until vengeance is taken there will be no end and it will be a continuous cycle of rinse and repeat. The same solution applies to the Rape Gang scandal.
Prosecute, Prosecute, Prosecute.
I am very angry about it and will be for the rest of my life.
Yes, of course the victims should be hugely compensated, but not by British Taxpayers, who had nothing to do with it, and were victims themselves.
All compensation to the vaccine victims should come from the companies who made the vaccines, the Ethiopian Marxist Terrorist head of the World Health Organization, and the politicians who forced them upon the people.
The financial cap in the VDPS scheme is derisory, compared with what can happen when someone who has suffered from injury caused by an insured third party. A suit for damages can lead to a more substantial settlement than that. Ask a solicitor who deals with issues like that.
The “vaccine” companies cannot be sued.
Not true.
There can be no escape whatsoever, simply because fraud vitiates any and all agreements to the contrary.
“Fraud unravels all”.
For those hard of hearing/lacking intellect/those who are dim ie MP’s of every persuasion, this means the bastards can be sued.
Get your act together, – unless The RPTB are pulling your strings.
As if. Lol.
That said. Just imagine, the victims, and associates thereof, could even sue HM Government for extolling/mandating the jabs. Sadly not possible in our wonderful democracy.
They enforced covid vaccinatiuons which they repeatedly assured the public were safe, in the face of serious challenge. Now they want to avoid paying damages. Similarly, in a way, they claim toi want tgo improve local government but the price is we lose local el;ections for two years.
IE health = injury, democracy = no vote.
Far too close to the truth!
The first thing Streeting needs to do is examine the scale of the problem.
Analysis of health data comparing vaccinated
and unvaccinated people.
Get MHRA to release all data, not hide behind ‘commercial sensitivity’.
It is only then a suitable way forward can be found.
The State (our tax payers money) may not have quite enough funds to pay all people with adverse effects to these vaccines?
Maybe the manufacturers can pay. If their trials are shown to be fraudulent and lacking robustness, surely any indemnity becomes nil and void?
Sir Jeremy, who has attended meetings with the Health Secretary about the issue, said: “We would be brave to claim that this is the last time the Government is going to ask for mass vaccination to take place.
One can only hope the gullible public will have learned its lesson in the meantime.
If they want people to carry on coming forward for vaccination – and I am sure they do – then it’s important to make it clear that if you are in the tiny unlucky minority where you are injured by a vaccine, then you will be looked after.
Tiny unlucky minority: really? And those who did not survive? It has been estimated that globally 17 million died directly from the wonderfully safe and effective ‘vaccines’.
Denis Rancourt and his colleagues have recently published further conclusions from their analyses of mortality data from around the world (see https://denisrancourt.ca/entries.php?id=147&name=2024_12_13_opinion_what_the_declared_pandemic_was_and_was_not_the_need_to_be_political_in_the_sense_of_influencing_people_on_all_sides) and they are definitely bad news for all vaccine manufacturers.
Thanks for that link to Denis Rancourt’s no-nonsense summary.
As the rate of some vaccine damage is estimated by proper experts as 1 in 100 jabs (worse each repeat!) this will either bankrupt the Country or not happen in any significant way. All of the heart, and immune damage causing turbo cancer, is very serious and currently not considered so by the “Government”. Excess deaths are above 10% now, and still rising. Until this is realised by the “Blob” etc. and suitable recompense made including prosecuting the perps for Genocide or even worse, not a lot is going to happen.