BPLL0007202 - Minutes of the 13th meeting of the Advisory Committee on the National Blood Transfusion Service

Minutes of the thirteenth meeting on 17 June at the Department of Health and Social Security, Hannibal House. The meeting is held by the Advisory Committee on the National Blood Transfusion Service. Points of interest are the Consumer Protection Bill, the NHS Management Services Study of NBTS Organisation, the Central Research Committee, plasma supply to BPL from RTCs (paper AC 87 7), no-fault compensation for injured blood donors, stockpile of unscreened plasma at BPL, HIV2 situation (paper AC 87 5), AIDS leaflet for blood donors, HTLV1 situation (paper AC 87 6), ALT testing for transfusion associated hepatitis (paper AC 87 9) and guidelines on autologous transfusion (paper AC 87 2). The chairman said there was no evidence of HIV2 in this country. It was reported that because of the need to stockpile there was an amount of plasma at BPL which had not been HIV screened.