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NHS England Records Management Code of Practice for Health and Social Care 2021 provided that GP records for deceased patients be retained for 10 years.

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The Welsh Health Circular Preservation, Retention and Destruction of GP General Medical Services Records Relating to Patients provided that records be retained 10 years after the conclusion of treatment, the patient's death or after the patient had permanently left the country.

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The Welsh Health Circular For the Record: Managing Records in NHS Trusts and Health Authorities provided that records be retained for 8 years.

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The Welsh Government's Records Management Code of Practice for Health and Social Care 2022: A Guide to the Management of Health and Social Care Records was issued.

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The Welsh Health Circular New Records Management Code of Practice for Health and Care 2022 was issued.

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The NHS Scotland Management Executive's Guidance for the Retention and Destruction of Health Records provided that records be retained 6 years from the date of the last recorded entry or 3 years after the death of the patient.

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The NHS Scotland Health Department's The Management, Retention and Disposal of Administrative Records was issued.

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Version 1 of the NHS Scotland Scottish Government Records Management: NHS Code of Practice was issued.

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Version 2 of NHS Scotland Scottish Government Records Management: NHS Code of Practice was issued.

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Version 2.1 of NHS Scotland Scottish Government Records Management: NHS Code of Practice was issued.

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A new version of Scottish Government Records Management: Health and Social Care Code of Practice was issued.

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A Northern Ireland Hospital Authority Circular provided that records be retained 6 years after the conclusion of treatment and 3 years after the patient's death if they died in hospital.

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A circular relating to the Retention of Personal Health Records (For Possible Use in Litigation) issued by the Department of Health and Social Services in Northern Ireland provided records be retained 8 years after the death of a patient or conclusion of treatment.

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A circular relating to the Retention of Personal Health Records (For Possible Use in Litigation) issued by the Health and Social Services Directorate in Northern Ireland provided records be retained 8 years after the last entry.

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In a letter to Dr Rosemary Biggs, Dr Cumming noted that there was no valid reason for a shortage of "coagulation factor" products, and that recent results from frozen plasma used in the production of concentrate meant that cryoprecipitate use would decline as centralised production by other methods was feasible.

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A product information sheet for the Scottish achievement recorded that it had ten times as much Factor 8 activity as fresh frozen plasma, and that "A similar fraction is prepared by ether fractionation (Kekwick)."

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An article "Red Cell Banking and the Production of a Factor VIII Concentrate" published in Vox Sanguinis demonstrated that by 1960, the Blood Products Unit in Edinburgh was fractionating plasma from 1,425 donors and investigating red cell concentrates to make full use of the donated blood.

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An article titled "A Concentrate of Human Antihaemophilic Factor - its use in six cases of haemophilia" published in The Lancet reported that they had developed antihaemophilic fraction ("AHF") which would enable clotting and had been used with success in six cases.

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In an article on "The Use of Human Anti-haemophilic Globulin (Fraction I-O) in Haemophilia A and in von Willebrand's Disease" published in Acta Haematologica, the development of antihaemophilic globulins (AHG) was reported which had treated 59 patients by 1959 in Sweden.

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The minutes of the meeting of the Joint Steering Committee on Blood Products Production recorded that planning to extend BPL had commenced in 1962, however building had only commenced in 1969. The extension of BPL had operated at capacity from April 1972, and the original buildings were also being modernised with the expectation they would be completed by August 1973.

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