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Update on February hearings and indicative timetable for 2022

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Update on Sir Robert Francis compensation framework study

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Alec Macpherson (Headmaster, Treloars) told the school about the two different types of hepatitis, information which came from the doctors at Treloars.

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A nursing sister raised concerns to Alec Macpherson about hepatitis at the Lord Mayor Treloar College around 1975.

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Dr Rosemary Biggs observed that "the collection of 49 haemophilic patients at the Alton School makes this a unique opportunity to study the disease."

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A report of a study at the Lord Mayor Treloar College stated that the "concentration in one residential centre of patients needing repeated transfusions has provided a good opportunity to study the incidence of Australia antigen and antibody in a vulnerable group".

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Pupils at Treloar's were identified as potential research subjects.

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Records indicated there were four completed research studies at Treloar's, a prophylactic treatment study nearing completion and two further research projects planned.

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Dr Peter Kirk's hepatitis study found "all cases of clinical hepatitis and most cases of asymptomatic hepatitis are confined to recipients of commercial concentrates".

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The haemophilia centre at Lord Mayor Treloar Hospital relocated to Treloar's School.

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At a meeting of representatives of the Regional Services Planning Team Dr Anthony Aronstam emphasised the "necessity" of research "as the concentration of haemophiliacs found at Treloars is unique within Britain".

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Dr Aronstam said in his thesis, "Hepatitis has always been a risk", but "the risk increased markedly with the introduction of pooled concentrated preparations of factor VIII".

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Pupils at Treloar's were being examined for any signs of the "stigmata of AIDS".

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Concentrate usage at Treloar's was recorded at its highest level.

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Dr Aronstam continued prophylaxis treatment with unheated concentrates.

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Dr Aronstam recorded that 37 pupils had tested positive for HIV.

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A report in Sweden suggested jaundice as an adverse effect of vaccination with a viral cause.

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The US Surgeon General realised human serum could transmit hepatitis from donors to recipients of the vaccine.

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A Senior Medical Officer at the Ministry of Health wrote to Dr Panton noting jaundice had followed receipt of mumps convalescent serum, yellow fever vaccine, and whole blood or plasma transfusion. He concluded that the association between transfusion and jaundice "may have been overlooked".

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The Emergency Blood Transfusion Service recognised that blood transfusion may result in delayed jaundice.

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