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Professor Bloom informed Dr Aronstam that a Treloar's pupil had received some of the same batch as the Cardiff patient who had developed AIDS.

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Staff at Treloar's indicated to students sitting together in a large room whether they were HIV positive by going around and saying 'yes' or 'no'.

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Prophylaxis treatment of a patient was discontinued after three years in 1987 because of the risks that immune-suppressive effects would follow.

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Dr Aronstam stated that reports of a hepatitis outbreak at Treloar's had been overstated.

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Dr Aronstam stated, in reference to a Treloar's student, that "he is realistic about AIDS and feels as I do that the benefits of treatment far outweigh the small risk of acquiring this condition".

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Dr Aronstam said to Adrian Goodyear, "we have fucked up, we've messed up, its all gone wrong".

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Adrian Goodyear and four other Treloar's students were told in Dr Aronstam's office that they had HIV.

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Adrian Goodyear had a conversation with Dr Aronstam, who stated "we messed up", "AIDS didn't need to happen" and "the PHLS have let me down".

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Adrian Goodyear recalled that in the early 1980s a small fridge was used for housing NHS material and a larger fridge was used for commercial products.

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A student at Treloar's recalled that pupils were told that they were infected with HIV in the presence of other pupils who had tested negative. He was wrongly informed that he was positive.

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A parent complained about the high dosage of Factor 8 their child was receiving at Treloar's.

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Dr Aronstam told the Treloar's governing body that parents of children carrying the AIDS antibody were "already aware of this fact".

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Data held by UKHCDO recorded 61 cases of HIV antibody positive at Basingstoke and Treloar's Haemophilia Centres. One is recorded as having seroconverted in 1980, four in 1981, eight in 1982, sixteen in 1983, thirteen in 1984 and nineteen in 1985, and none inlater years.

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Professor Bloom wrote to Dr Ludlam regarding AIDs and the treatment recommendations agreed at a meeting held May 13th.

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Dr Aronstam reported that there were "enormous difficulties" with the first prophylaxis trial at Treloar's which he felt "were a direct result of using a placebo".

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Dr Aronstam reported that Treloar's had stopped recording the batch numbers of transfusions because of the enormous amount of work this had entailed.

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Amanda Beesley, whose late husband Andrew had been a pupil at Treloar's, and who worked between 1984 and 1988 as a unit leader at Treloar's, recalled that they "didn't have ... any help to know how to support the boys" who had been diagnosed with infections.

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Dr Aronstam stated that, "The specialised nature of the haemophiliac condition makes it impossible to win the trust of the patient unless you are seen to have a thorough understanding of the primary illness. For this reason I do not see a role for the injection of specialised counsellors into our Unit."

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A student at Treloar's, who was infected with Hepatitis B whilst at Treloar's stated that his mother was never told about the diagnosis; despite a group of pupils having been collectively told of their diagnosis. The pupils were told that because they were haemophiliacs they would get over the Hepatitis B infection, unlike other people.

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Richard Titmuss stated in his book that a "gift" (blood or plasma donated by voluntary non-remunerated blood donors) is intrinsically safer than blood sourced from donors who are paid.

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