Letter from Prof R S Tedder University College London Medical School to Dr Jeremy Metters Department of Health DOH re introduction of antiHCV and its effect on antiHBc screening States that due to introduction of antiHCV screening hepatitis B screening would be stopped and this would result in posttransfusion hepatitis B infections Asks what steps DOH is going to undertake to underwrite the protection of transfusion centres who would have been willing to introduce antiHBc screening who will now find themselves subject to litigation from injured parties