A Department of Health memo noted that the Haemophilia Society wanted an investigation into the alleged lack of information given about the risks of contracting HCV/NANBH from contaminated blood products before 1987, delays in informing people that they were HCV positive and inaccurate reassurances given about the benign nature of HCV.

In a letter to Richard Gutowski, Karin Pappenheim noted that the Skipton Fund made no provision for those who had died, or those who had cleared the virus through treatment, and that by opting for cirrhosis as a trigger for higher payments it missed out many suffering significantly from serious advanced liver disease or liver damage.

Reverend Tanner and David Watters (together with the Society's adviser on parliamentary lobbying) met Strachan Heppell, a senior civil servant. They were recorded as expressing the Society's interest in achieving an out-of-court settlement for compensation.

An article titled "Panic and the blood" was published in The Guardian, which criticised Norman Fowler's decision to depend largely on American Factor 8 imports rather than buying from countries where AIDS was not prevalent or seeking to become self-sufficient.

An update on AIDS was published in Haemofact on AIDS Release No. 3 by Dr Lee, which stated: "In Great Britain the number of haemophiliacs who have been reported with AIDS remain at 2. Thus the incidence is less than 1 in 1,000 patients at risk."

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