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The impression was given that a witness' Hepatitis C was due to alcohol use, regardless of the accuracy of this.

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A witness' husband was labelled an alcoholic due to his Hepatitis C infection.

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A letter sent to a witness' husband's GP suggested he drank alcohol.

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Identical entries were recorded in the medical records of a widow's husband and father-in-law. The two men shared the same name.

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Despite references to alcohol in his medical records, a witness' husband did not go out drinking.

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A witness was shocked at the mention of excessive alcohol in her husband's medical notes. It did not ring true to her.

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Doctors have generally responded to criticism regarding the accuracy of notes concerning a patient's alcohol consumption by defending their records as being an accurate representation of what they were told.

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A witness had no medical records relating to a period in hospital after a road traffic accident when he required the insertion of a metal plate into his ankle.

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A witness recalled her husband attending an appointment where he was told he did not have AIDS and then attending a week later to be told by Dr Peter Kernoff that he was in fact infected. Neither appointment appeared in his medical records.

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A witness had two pages missing from his records relating to surgery at the North Middlesex Hospital after which he had required multiple blood transfusions._

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A witness received in excess of 700 pages when she sought the records of her husband. However, the bulk of these were "green cards" and the medical records were incomplete, including a number of years between 1977 and 1991.

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A father who applied for his son's records received only one haematology letter. All the other notes were provided, including paediatrics and orthopaedics but the haematology records were missing.

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The UK Haemophilia Centre Doctors' Organisation National Haemophilia Database was collated over time from patient records.

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One witness stated that his UKHCDO records were "partial and incomplete" with no record of hepatitis tests.

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Alan Burgess' UKHCDO records listed the "Date first positive" as 15 January 1985 but he was tested in August and the sample date was 15 September.

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Graham Manning's treatment with US Factor 9 concentrate was not recorded in his notes; only his subsequent treatment with cryoprecipitate and NHS Factor 8 was recorded.

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Record keeping was inaccurate in the case of a widow where her husband's first HIV diagnosis was listed as October 1985 whereas the ELISA test indicated this was August 1984.

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Della Ryness-Hirsch was described as a "neurotic mother" after advocating for her son not to be given American Factor 8 in early 1980. It took her several physical meetings to obtain both sets of records at which point she realised entries were missing.

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Paul Sartain recalled seeing a letter from a pharmaceutical company offering to donate money to the hospital charity if their product was used which was later missing from his medical records.

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Dr Bernie Marden confirmed that the Trust could not locate the letter cited in Paul Sartain's statement.

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