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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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An anonymous witness received a transfusion but the records for that specific day were missing.

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During oral evidence a witness shared the experience of obtaining their medical records and that it was after trying to make a complaint that she was furnished with "everything, except for the notes".

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The NHS Trust confirmed that no further records or information pertaining to a witness' blood transfusion had been located.

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The Inquiry has seen evidence that on at least one occasion a patient was deliberately tricked into having a blood transfusion.

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Professor David Armstrong gave evidence to the Inquiry about the poor quality of records systems: that patients were meant to have one set of medical notes but this system would break down when they were treated by different departments, and that difficulties remained in relation to the integration and interoperability of records between hospitals and GPs.

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Not knowing that GP records had already been obtained, St Thomas' told a witness that at no time had they suggested his father was an alcoholic.

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The GP records of a witness' father state he was diagnosed with non-A non-B Hepatitis in 1983 "in view of his exposure to blood products".

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In his last speech in Parliament, Andy Burnham MP read a letter from a witness about her husband who was refused a liver transplant and died unaware of accusations around alcohol use.

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There is no record of hepatitis tests in a witness' UKHCDO records and the Hepatitis C lookback data is inaccurate.

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The Inquiry has heard evidence of a large level of under-reporting, so that data important for public safety is never recorded in any document or on any system even before questions of its retention or destruction arise.

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