Dr Brian McClelland stated South East Scotland initially had three plasmapheresis beds in the early 1980s for the collection of plasma from donors who had high levels of antibody either to tetanus toxin or to the rhesus antigen to make specific immunoglobulin products, but then started a small automatic plasmapheresis programme. He would have been "keen" to expand it but there was no enthusiasm at SNBTS or the Scottish Home and Health Department to pursue it.