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A meeting of the CMO Welsh Office was held "to establish the known facts as they affected the UK in general and Wales in the particular."

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A Welsh Office representative was invited to attend the meetings of the Advisory Group on Hepatitis and the Working Group on AIDS of the Advisory Committee on the NBTS.

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A ban on Factor 8 from the US was considered at a meeting on AIDS convened by the Welsh Office, Medical Service Health Professional Group. It was argued that this would cause a reduction in patients treated and the modification of the facility for home treatment.

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A meeting on AIDS was convened by the Welsh Office, Medical Services Health Professional Group. It was attended by Dr Gareth Crompton, the Chief Medical Officer, and a number of medical officers.

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Dr David Ferguson-Lewis wrote to the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State notifying him that the patient at the Cardiff Haemophilia Centre did meet the CDSC definition of AIDS but there was "no cause for precipitate action."

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Dr David Ferguson-Lewis wrote to the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State following press reports implicating US blood products in cases of AIDS.

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The Welsh Office issued advice and took action "on its own account", such as issuing PSM (84)4, asking doctors to inform the Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre of cases of AIDS or Kaposi's sarcoma.

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Dr J Skone wrote to chief administrative medical officers stating that he was aware of a haemophilia patient suffering from AIDS.

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Dr Nicol Spence Galbraith wrote to venereologists and dermatologists in England and Wales seeking their "cooperation" in a trial clinical reporting system of Kaposi's sarcoma due to the "inadequacies of existing surveillance systems".

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When the SHHD became aware that the Edinburgh and South East Scotland's leaflet had started circulate, Dr Bell commented that it "looks as though, de facto, we are about to reach a situation in which there will be two slightly different leaflets."

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At the meeting it was stated that "at present there was no proof that the commercial concentrates were the cause of AIDS" and "it was agreed that patients...should continue to receive the NHS or commercial concentrates in their usual way."

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Dr Brookes told the SNBTS directors' meeting that "the only Scottish region to continue holding sessions" was now Glasgow, which held its final session on 25 March 1984.

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It was reported that there was a frequency of Hepatitis B in various donor groups, including new general public and factory donors, Armed Forces personnel, and inmates from prisons and borstals.

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Paul Winstanley stated "We shall obviously need to liaise closely with Home Office also since they have in the past been very much in favour of blood donation by prisoners."

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The MRC's Blood Transfusion Research Committee was disbanded in July 1982, due to the MRC board's conclusion that its work was being duplicated elsewhere.

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Statistics following the emergence of AIDS in Los Angeles during 1981, where discussions around the disease were taking place including how the disease was described as an outbreak of "community acquired" pneumocystis carinii pneumonia.

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By the time the AIDS leaflet were used in South East Scotland, the group of those identified as at risk in Scotland had been amended.

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Following discussions of the wording and production of the AIDS leaflet in 1983, it was highlighted that it was believed that AIDS could be transmitted through blood and blood products including Factor 8.

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Professor Hann stated that a lack of centralised government resulted in a failure to recognise the risks.

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Dr Scott described regular meetings between the SHHD and the DHSS and ongoing communication with regards to the discussion of the risks of AIDS but clarified that the SHHD did not automatically adopt DHSS policies.

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