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In June 1985, a document about the BPL (specifically background and current information) about the facility was produced for members of the CBLA. It detailed its product list, manufacturing targets, revenue and its position on self-sufficiency and meeting the demand for plasma, amongst other topics.

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The product labels for BPL Factor 8 concentrate in March 1976 noted: "less than 1500 plasma donations used in the preparation of this batch".

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Dr Lane wrote to Thomas Dutton, of the DHSS, enclosing a paper on the requirement for hepatitis testing at BPL, in relation to the stop-gap provisions for plasma fractionation at BPL. He said the paper was to enable Mr Dutton to see what he thought about this matter prior to planned discussions with Dr Waiter and Dr Maycock at DHSS.

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A note of a discussion held at the DHSS (in January 1978) regarding RIA testing to contain hepatitis at BPL recorded agreement that Dr Lane would revise his paper to include information about the additional staff, accommodation and costs necessary to introduce RIA at BPL, and that this would be shown to the Medicines Division.

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Dr Lane wrote a letter to Professor Mollison enclosing the paper submitted to DHSS on "Stop Gap Provision for Plasma Fractionation at BPL". The paper outlined the problems of containing hepatitis in the preparation of concentrates and the programme to provide radioimmunoassay service to contain Hepatitis B.

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A report to the Advisory Sub-committee on Blood Products and Blood Group Reference Laboratories of the Central Committee of the National Blood Transfusion Service was published.

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Dr Lane wrote a letter to Dr Jones concerning the difference in pool sizes between commercial and non-commercial concentrate products.

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The Protein Fractionation Technology Working Party published a report advising that, in order to reduce the need for purchasing overseas blood products, BPL needed to produce 450,000 litres of plasma annually.

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The Advisory Group on Testing For the Presence of Hepatitis B Surface Antigen and Its Antibody published its third draft report.

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The UK Haemophilia Centre Directors Hepatitis Working Party convened to discuss hepatitis surveillance, chronic hepatitis, and prospective studies and trials.

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The Second Annual Report on Project Number J/S240/78/7 was published, detailing the findings from studies of the epidemiology and chronic sequelae of Factor 8 and 9 associated hepatitis in the United Kingdom.

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Dr Craske sent a letter to Dr Walford enclosing a draft letter intended to be published in The Lancet, detailing the situation relating to the risk of NANBH after first exposure to Factor 8.

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The Working Party on Plasma Supply published a draft report: 'A Comparison of Freeze-Dried Cryoprecipitate and Intermediate Purity Concentrates As Major Products For National Cell Sufficiency in Factor VIII'.

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Dr Bidwell sent a memo to Dr Lane confirming that PFL labelling would change to reflect that Factor 8 made at PFL would come from a pool size of up to 5,000 donations.

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Dr Snape sent a memo to Peter Prince advising that an extension to a maximum pool size of 20,000 donations would be contained in any future product licensing applications.

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Dr Robert Perry gave evidence that PFC pool sizes from 1978/79 to 1983/84 increased.

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Annual payments made by the Skipton Fund were extended to people who had received Stage 1 payments as well as Stage 2.

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Lord Hunt asked about the scope for "doing more" for people with haemophilia infected with Hepatitis C and requested an outline costing of a hardship fund. The advice provided said that such a fund would be unlikely to be acceptable and that there would be a continuing demand for parity with the HIV scheme.

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Dr Paul Giangrande, director of the Oxford Haemophilia Centre, wrote to the Department of Health, expressing the view that "some form of payment should be made to patients who have simply tested positive for the HCV antibody, even if they subsequently cleared this and did not have abnormal liver function tests"; and that it was "grossly unfair" that people coinfected "should not receive additional compensation".

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A meeting was held to discuss ex gratia payments to patients who were infected with Hepatitis C as a result of NHS treatment with blood or blood products. It was attended by Andrew MacLeod and Bob Stock from the Scottish Executive, and Richard Gutowski and David Reay from the Department of Health.

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