John Cash (physician)

John David Cash CBE (3 April 1936 – 8 December 2020)[1] was president of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. He also served as Medical Director at the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service from 1979 to 1988.[2]

John David Cash
Born(1936-04-03)3 April 1936
Died8 December 2020(2020-12-08) (aged 84)
OccupationProfessor, physician

Career

In 1998 Cash published a Government review into the National Blood Authority following a shortage of blood supplies.[3][4] The review resulted in the sacking of Sir Colin Walker as the then head of the National Blood Authority,[5] shortly after chief executive John Adey was also fired.[6]

Cash gave evidence to the Penrose Inquiry[7] and has been outspoken about Britain's tainted blood scandal in which thousands of haemophiliacs died. Cash was critical of the Inquiry's Final Report, he said it had failed to get to the truth and allowed the responsible executives to avoid giving evidence.[8]

In May 2017 he appeared in BBC Panorama's "Contaminated Blood: The Search for the Truth", stating "If you look at the difference in England and Scotland in terms of the outcomes, you have to conclude that it was not unavoidable, it was avoidable".[9]

On the 11th December 2020 the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh announced that Cash had passed away suddenly.[10]

References
  1. Cash, Prof. John David
  2. "Blood authority chief fired". =BBC News.
  3. "National Blood Authority (Hansard, 8 April 1998)". hansard.millbanksystems.com.
  4. "Lords Hansard text for 8 Apr 1998 (180408-07)". publications.parliament.uk. Department of the Official Report (Hansard), House of Lords, Westminster.
  5. "NHS sacks blood boss after "Independent" campaign". The Independent. 9 April 1998.
  6. "Second blood chief fired". BBC News.
  7. "WITNESS NAME: Professor John Cash" (PDF). PENROSE INQUIRY. 2011-03-03.
  8. Caroline Wheeler (6 September 2015). "Six-year inquiry "failed to find full awful truth about scandal of tainted blood"". Express.
  9. "Panorama – Contaminated Blood: The Search for the Truth". BBC.
  10. "In Memoriam – Professor John Cash CBE". Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
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