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A five-year lookback programme was introduced.

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At the EAGA meeting, Dr Tedder asked members to consider asking seropositive patients if they had donated blood since 1978.

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At the EAGA meeting, Dr Contreras asked again that clinicians routinely ask patients with HTLV-3 antibodies or AIDS if they had donated blood.

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CMO's Dear Doctor letter asked clinicians to ask whether HTLV-3 patients ever donated blood.

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The Public Health Laboratory Service ("PHLS") report examined lookbacks from 1985 to 1989 and found differences of practice and gaps in records.

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PHLS was established.

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The NHS was created.

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Hepatitis became a notifiable disease.

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The report of the Advisory Group on Hepatitis and the Treatment of Chronic Renal Failure (the Rosenheim Committee report) was published.

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A reorganisation of the NHS including abolition of the Medical Officer of Health role took place.

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The CDSC was established.

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The Report of the Committee of Inquiry Into the Future Development of the Public Health Function (the Acheson report) was published.

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Test for Hepatitis C became available.

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The National Blood Transfusion Service and Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service Liaison Committee agreed not to established a lookback policy.

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The ACVSB agreed to recommend to ministers that Hepatitis C testing should be introduced in the UK. Consideration of any lookback procedure was postponed.

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The ACVSB was told that the ACTTD would be meeting to consider lookback.

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Professor John Cash wrote to Dr Jeremy Metters requesting the ACVSB to consider a lookback policy.

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The ACTTD agreed that "there may be an ethical obligation to inform patients who may have received transfusions in the past from anti-HCV donations."

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The ACVSB recommended that lookback should not be undertaken as a service, leaving the option for those carrying out research.

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The ACTTD agreed that lookback may have legal implications and should be considered.

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