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In his written statement, Alasdair Cameron stated that no medical records were available from the time of his operation, records were poorly stored in Scotland and it was believed they were "routinely destroyed after a set period".

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Sometimes documents recording environmental incidents have themselves been destroyed under retention policies.

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A man's request to "expunge" incorrect information in his medical records was granted.

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Identical entries are 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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A witness' son's medical records contain no information about when he was tested for, diagnosed with or informed of his HIV infection.

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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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