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Peter Stevens understood that the reason Professor Christine Lee was not passing any applicants from spontaneous clearers was that she believed that any attempt to exclude them was logically or scientifically flawed.

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Chris Harrington in a letter to Richard Gutowski asked whether there would be provision made for those who had cleared the virus in the proposed ex gratia payments scheme.

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Lord Ross proposed initial lump sum payments and a discretionary trust making ex gratia payments to all those who had probably received blood, blood products or tissue from the NHS in Scotland and who had become infected with Hepatitis C.

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Dr Paul Giangrande had been part of a working group which had produced a report about an appropriate payment scheme for the Haemophilia Society in June 2002.

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In "S and Others v the National Blood Authority" a 17-year-old boy cleared HCV and received compensation for an adjustment disorder. This evidence was used in the report for the HCV working party regarding compensation in order to argue in favour of a position for including natural clearers in the compensation scheme.

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The Haemophilia Society responded that a report published into HCV published by the Scottish Executive was a "very thin, incomplete piece of work which does not represent the full inquiry we were seeking".

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"The Guardian" reported that widows and children of people with haemophilia who had died from contaminated blood products could be excluded from a government aid package.

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The application form regarding the Skipton Fund was agreed by all four nations.

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An IBI counsel presentation on the Skipton Fund noted that the majority of Skipton applications were accepted. However, out of those applications that appealed after initial refusal, 49.5% of appeals were accepted.

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Records of Hepatitis B patients were frequently missing and there was no check back to see where the donation had come from.

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The Inquiry's interim report highlighted the importance of ensuring Hepatitis B sufferers had been supported in any compensation scheme that might occur.

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Compensation could not be given for those infected with Hepatitis C as a result of a donation that was given after 1 September 1991. No case would be reviewed that did not meet this cut off point.

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Long-lasting effects of Hepatitis C were not fully considered by the funds and compensation schemes as it was difficult to identify symptoms of the disease before it was formally diagnosed.

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Susan Deacon ordered an inquiry into whether people with haemophilia in Scotland had been exposed to unnecessary risk of Hepatitis C through infected blood products in the mid 1980s.

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The Health and Community Care Committee of the Scottish Parliament considered the Haemophilia Society petition calling for a public inquiry, and a second petition from a person who had contracted Hepatitis C as a result of a blood transfusion during a routine operation in 1989.

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The Health and Community Care Committee called Susan Deacon to give evidence on 25 October 2000.

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Alan Milburn told the Treasury that the legal advice for the Government was that there was a very limited chance of success following the recommendations in the judgment of the High Court (in England) in "A and Others v the National Blood Authority" and the decision should not be appealed.

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The Skipton Appeals Panel met quarterly. A guidance note was provided to applicants which clarified that they could provide evidence of a transfusion.

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In "A and Others v the National Blood Authority" Mr Justice Burton concluded that routine screening ought to have been introduced by 1 March 1990, and surrogate testing should have been in place by March 1988.

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An amendment to the Skipton Fund occurred in 2016 which made specific clauses applicable to each UK nation.

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