Letter from Jean F. Harrison, Director of the North East Thames Regional Transfusion Centre, to GPs, re: Hepatitis C Antibody Testing. It announces that all blood donations will be tested for HCV from September 1991, and estimates that approximately 70 – 80 donors will be “confirmed positive” in the first year. It further states that the Transfusion Centres will inform donors whose tests are confirmed positive, and seek their consent to inform their GPs of their test results. Enclosures: - Up-to-date information about HCV; - Recommendations for investigating GP’s patients found to be HCV-positive - Guidance to answer donors’ queries; and - Information about HCV given to all blood donors Page MAIN/2087