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Professor Ingram stated "We are of course also using considerable quantities of commercial material for surgical cover...Can anything further be done to increase NHS production?"

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Geoffrey Savidge asked what the policy of the haemophilia reference centre directors was. Professor Bloom, responded and said that it was "a matter for the individual Directors to decide."

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As a junior registrar at Edinburgh, Dr Robert Carr did not have discussions with patients about AIDs as the causative agent had not been identified at the time.

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A witness to the Inquiry with von Willebrand disorder was treated with Factor 8 for the first time in 1981 and 1982. She thought it unlikely that she was told of any risks as she would have questioned whether there were alternative treatments available.

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At a large meeting at Birmingham Children's Hospital Dr Hill informed parents that some boys treated with Factor VIII were at risk of HIV infection.

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Susan Threakall was informed she had had Hepatitis C for at least 15 years. Her parents were never warned of the risks of Factor XI treatment by Birmingham Children's' Hospital.

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In oral evidence Mr AN noted that his parents were not told of risks of infection, nor was he personally told to look out for any adverse reactions to treatment.

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In a document about home treatment authored by Dr Evans, it was stated that used syringes should not be put in the bin as they could infect someone emptying the bin.

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In a report authored by Professor Bloom, he stated that warnings should have been given prior to May 1983 as to the risks of hepatitis consequent to treatment with concentrate.

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Dr. Peter Jones wrote in a book that every family knew that the use of human blood products carried the risk of hepatitis and that the risk had been linked particularly to commercial concentrates prepared from the blood of paid donors.

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Dr Davies provided a home treatment consent form for patients which stated that they agreed to treat themselves and that there was the possibility of hepatitis as a result of their therapy.

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National Blood Transfusion Service published a leaflet on AIDS which stated that AIDs could almost certainly be transmitted by transfusion of blood and blood products.

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Dr. Adamson sent a letter to the mother of a patient which referenced 'the recent problems with AIDs' and stated that a blood test would need to be carried out.

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A letter from Dr. Mitchell to Dr Perry noted that a patient was HIV positive but was not aware of it. Dr Mitchell stated that they would comply with Dr Perry's wishes not to tell the patient.

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In a letter, Dr Thomas Taylor (Inverness) wrote that it was "inappropriate, unethical and illogical that we have to seek patient consent before testing for HIV."

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A letter received by parents informed them that their child had tested positive for HTLV-III antibodies. Of the 16 patients tested the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital 60% had had a positive result.

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Dr McVerry was a co-author of a paper published in the Lancet which referred to the testing of people with haemophilia for HIV. Dr McVerry's involvement suggests that some patients from Liverpool were amongst the cohort being tested.

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A publication in the British Journal of Haematology co-authored by Dr McVerry and others, reported testing on 21 Liverpool patients with haemophilia, and an investigation of the wives of some patients.

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The husband of a witness was told he had HIV at a routine appointment in a manner of fact way, and not provided any information or advice on managing his condition.

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An individual was tested for HIV in January 1985 but the first official confirmation his widow had that he had HIV/AIDS was after his death in 1985 when she saw it recorded on his death certificate.

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