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Dr Shanida Nataraja, a junior medical writer at Dianthus Medical Ltd, was appointed by Dr Adam Jacobs to undertake the work on the Self-Sufficiency Report.

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A further draft version of England and Wales Self-Sufficiency in Blood Products: Chronology from 1973 to 1985 did not have an executive summary. It was saved in a folder called "Work in Progress".

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By this date the Christmas Eve version (Peter Burgin's version) of the Self-Sufficiency Report had been referenced, all bar some 26 matters.

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The 13 July version of England and Wales Self-Sufficiency in Blood Products: Chronology from 1973 to 1985 contained a note referring to the need to add information about surrogate testing for Non-A, Non-B Hepatitis, as well as first, second and third-generation tests.

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The original report by Peter Burgin had spoken of Professor Zuckerman's warning, in the 1975 TV programme about the risks of hepatitis from commercial concentrates, that hepatitis linked to factor concentrates could lead to cirrhosis and liver cancer, however, the Dianthus version left this entire paragraph out.

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The draft executive summary of the Self-Sufficiency report was a separate document in the "Work in Progress" folder.

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A version of the report identified as Annotation of Draft Report on Self-Sufficiency in Blood Products was located in a folder called "Previous Versions". This contained comments by Dr Hugh Nicholas, the senior medical officer in the Health Protection Division.

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Dr Hugh Nicholas, the senior medical officer in the Health Protection Division, commented on the August version (Dianthus version) of the Self -Sufficiency report, observing one thing that frequently seemed to be missing were the actual views of the Department of Health.

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In response to the view in the draft report that doctors treating haemophiliacs explained the risk of viral infection, Dr Hugh Nicholas observed that could be construed as contentious by patients who had not had all of the relevant risks explained to them.

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Dr Shanida Nataraja responded to Dr Hugh Nicholas's comments on the draft report.

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A version of the report identified as England and Wales Self-Sufficiency in Blood Products: A Chronology from 1973 to 1985 (draft) was located in a folder called "Previous Versions".

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Dr Shanida Nataraja referred to making amendments to the report "on the advice of David" in an email to Richard Gutowski..The email also specifically raised matters which Dr Shanida Nataraja suggested might be added to the report.

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A briefing note called Haemophiliacs and AIDS for Baroness Trumpington contained the wording "Doctors treating haemophiliacs were, we believe, careful in explaining these risks to their patients." This wording appeared in the Dianthus version of the Self-Sufficiency report in 2004.

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During his evidence to the Inquiry Lord Fowler was asked about the wording in a letter from Baroness Trumpington to an MP in 1986, namely, "Doctors treating haemophiliacs were, we believe, careful in explaining these risks to their patients." He did not know where the wording came from.

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Baroness Trumpington wrote to Anthony Nelson in reply to a constituent's letter about heat-treated blood products for people with haemophilia.

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Publication of Second Annual Report on Project Number J/S240/78/7: Studies of the Epidemiology and Chronic Sequelae of Factor VIII and IX Associated Hepatitis in the United Kingdom.

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A letter from Dr Tony Dickens (Medical Research Council) to Dr John Craske confirmed that the DHSS Chief Scientist had informed the MRC that NANBH was "being given high priority by the Department".

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Reverend Alan Tanner wrote to members of the Haemophilia Society to share a message from Professor Arthur Bloom that "The cause of AIDS is quite unknown and it has not been proven to result from transmission of a specific infective agent in blood products."

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Dr Shanida Nataraja sent an email to Richard Gutowski regarding the final report on self-sufficiency, stating she had made changes to the report in line with Dr Hugh Nicholas's comments.

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Dr Hugh Nicholas, senior medical officer in the Health Protection Division, sent an email to Richard Gutowski to share his comments on the draft report on self-sufficiency.

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