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A disagreement began between the UK Government and Scottish Executive as to whether making payments to relieve financial hardship out of health care treatment was something that the Scottish Executive had a right to legislate on. Malcolm Chisholm said that the advice he had was that this was a devolved matter but he was not sure this was right.

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The Secretary of State wrote to Malcolm Chisholm informing him that an ex gratia payment scheme for people in Scotland who had been infected with Hepatitis C as a result of treatment with NHS blood/blood products would be accepted as falling within devolved competence.

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A document relating to spontaneous clearance of Hepatitis C suggested press lines to be adopted, including "Ministers have made it clear from the outset that the scheme would only make payments to patients who had experienced lasting physiological harm as a result of their infection."

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Further nominees for expert groups put forward

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"The surveillance of transfusion-associated viral hepatitis" was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The article supported Dr Allen's striking "ten times" finding.

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In his book "The Gift Relationship", Professor Richard Titmuss commented on the additional risk created by paid donations mixed in commercial pools in the US.

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Dr Craske linked the risks of commercial concentrates from large pools with domestic production.

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A letter from Dr Garrott Allen to Dr Maycock emphasised the risks associated with commercial blood in a mixed combination to bring up an astounding attack rate from one that was relatively unnoticed.

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Dr Maycock knew the risks associated with commercial blood in a mixed combination to bring up an astounding attack rate; possibly Dr Owen knew of this too.

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In a Blood Money interview, Dr Craske explained the risk of larger pools, acknowledging that one donor could affect a pool and that Factor 8 should only be used in emergencies and by qualified staff.

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Dr Owen acknowledged that it was likely that he would have read Craske's article, acknowledging the risks of commercial concentrates from large pools with domestic production.

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Professor Manucci pointed out that strict adherence to the "small pool concept" in Sweden had given rise to "a very low incidence" of post-transfusion hepatitis in people with Haemophilia B, and suggested that the adoption of such a concept would be "a significant step forward".

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The Council of Europe recommended that blood collection agencies and pharmaceutical companies should give treating physicians and consumers detailed information about blood and blood related products, including the nature of the donor pool from which the products were derived.

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Dr James Smith at PFL asked Dr Lane, as the director of BPL, to agree to his increasing the pool size used to 900kg-1,000kg of plasma (roughly 4,500-5,000 donations).

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Dr Lane observed that once one had exceeded the 100kg-200kg pool size, one had already exceeded any possibility of small pool protection.

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Dr Craske felt that the increased usage of small pooled concentrates would help to reduce the incidence of hepatitis in the haemophilic population.

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Dr Smith sent a memo to Dr Lane, suggesting that three tables in a report by Dr Craske, which he had presented to the working party, "offer good ammunition against the importation of U.S. plasma or its products".

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Dr Peter Foster and Ida Dickson considered that losses in Factor 8 from having to meet quality control requirements could be reduced.

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A memo from Dr Foster to John Watt and others described the specifics of a new-scale thawing tank becoming ready for use at the start of 1981.

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In a review of tables on batches and the pool size from which they were made during this period, it was found that of the 27 batches listed only 10 were larger than 300 litres, and of these the highest figure was 555 litres (being 5 such batches).

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