Letter from John Cash, National Medical & Scientific Director to Dr Gunson, National Director to National Blood Transfusion Service re, donor testing. The letter alludes to a disaster which occurred the week before in the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service ‘SNBTS’, but provides no further details. Instead the letter inquires the date of a Second Generation Test Study, when its associated report will be completed, and its recommendations will be sent ‘to the Minister.’ In a PS- the letter also refers to HCV discussions and the prospective establishment of a look-back study and that the SNBTS will engage in a programme as ‘time is short!’