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During David Watters' term in office, there were a number of regional groups, of varying size and effectiveness, which tended to be concerned with their particular local issues and local fundraising rather than with national policies. Two members from each regional group formed a council which met with the Executive Committee two or three times a year.

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Peter Wetherell described in his statement to the Inquiry how it dawned on him that damage had been done and they did not want to face it, and it would also have meant many people having abandon their treatment programmes.

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The UK Government expected that it would be found liable in court to compensate individuals who had contracted Hepatitis C from transfusions given in England when a reasonably effective test for the virus was available.

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It was stated in a Department of Health and Social Security memorandum that Scotland suffered an exposure to risks of infection for over a year longer than its English counterpart because of the delay in introducing heat-treated NHS concentrates in Scotland.

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The Haemophilia Society reported in its 1991 'Bulletin' that the NHS reforms had provided an opportunity to set out a detailed standard for the care of all people with haemophilia in the UK. Under these reforms, local health districts were responsible for purchasing the care that all people with haemophilia would receive. The Society's publication "Essentials of Haemophilia Care" also set out to educate district health authorities.

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The Manor House Group became a special interest group of the Haemophilia Society.

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The Society made a complaint that Frank Dobson had not given a speedy response to the issue of compensation, as he had promised 10 months earlier.

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The response from Frank Dobson to the Society's complaint on the issue of payments was negative.

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Susan Deacon apparently agreed a wide remit with the Society for an internal inquiry.

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A Haemophilia Society HCV worker believed heat treatment was introduced in 1986 and therefore no one was at risk of being infected with hepatitis after that date.

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In retrospect, Dr Pinching believed that he qualified a statement he was quoted as making by the Mail on Sunday in 1983 that he would not dream of giving a patient American blood products.

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In a letter Professor Bloom stated that "we may not have had the AIDs problem in the U.K. had we been self-sufficient in blood products."

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Dr Jones and David Watters, with input from the Reverend Tanner (chairman), Simon Taylor and possibly others, drafted a report which was the basis of the claim to Government in the Society's campaign for financial recompense in November 1987.

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In the 1970s and 1980s the Society argued that the UK should make greater use of plasmapheresis because not doing so was wasteful of blood, which was a scarce resource.

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Oral evidence given to the Archer Inquiry showed that there were concerns that Macfarlane Trust beneficiaries would be ineligible for payments being made available by the government to people with haemophilia and Hepatitis C through the Skipton Fund.

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John Moore proposed to a Cabinet Sub-Committee that special financial assistance for people with haemophilia living with AIDS might be given, and suggested that a lump sum be given to the Haemophilia Society to administer and distribute.

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In his written answer to a parliamentary question, Tony Newton explained that the DHSS first received reports on AIDS from America in 1981, were aware that people with haemophilia were infected in 1982 and evidence that AIDS could be transmitted by blood transfusion emerged in 1983.

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In his written answer to a parliamentary question, Tony Newton undertook to give an answer on whether steps would be taken to compensate people with haemophilia who were infected with AIDS by Factor 8 brought from the US.

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In a briefing note prepared by Roger Moore for an interview with "The Northern Echo", it was stated that compensation could only be awarded where negligence had been proven.

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John Moore met with the Haemophilia Society and promised to urgently consider their representation on compensation for people with haemophilia who had been infected with HIV.

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