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A witness to the Inquiry was told they had Hepatitis C roughly 40 years after they were first infected.

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Rosamund Cooper accidentally discovered her Hepatitis C diagnosis when it was casually mentioned by a doctor during a pre-operative chat.

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Dr Jones stated "John Craske tells me that they will hopefully soon be in a position to test all our patients for HTLV3 antibody and the families know that. They alsoknow that they will be told the results."

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The small prospective study of cryoprecipitate treatment showed no evidence of infection with hepatitis or HIV viruses after careful follow up of each patient for one year.

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Study on the inactivation of HTLV-III/LAV during plasma fractionation whose results indicated that steps in large scale plasma fractionation, especially ethanol at -5C and low pH, reduced the risk of plasma products being infectious should the source material be contaminated by HTLV-III/LAV.

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Scottish patients with haemophilia, most of whom had received no American factor VIII concentrate for over two years, were found to have immunological abnormalities. This included a reduced proportion of T helper cells an increased proportion of T suppressor cells, and a reduced response to eoncanavilin A.

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In the summer of 1985 two meetings regarding HIV and AIDs were held at Pendlebury that called for the attendance of parents of children with bleeding disorders.

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Dr Anna Pettigrew took up post as a part-time clinical assistant at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children.

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Dr Pettigrew recollected that newly diagnosed patients or those with mild haemophilia were treated with cryoprecipitate and those on home therapy or frequent attending patients were treated with concentrate.

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Dr Pettigrew recalled commercial product was more user friendly and dissolved quicker.

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Parents often administered home therapy which was preferred.

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Home therapy and prophylactic therapy were introduced by Dr Willoughby for psychological and clinical reasons.

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Dr Pettigrew viewed that all clinical staff acted in what they thought to be in the best interests of their patients, including Dr Willoughby (who instituted home therapy with Factor VIII concentrates.

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Cryoprecipitate, although less convenient to use, was not impracticable for home treatment despite what the opinion at Yorkhill hospital was.

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Glasgow Yorkhill Haemophilia Centre's annual returns showed substantial but decreasing use of commercial compared to PFC concentrates.

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RHSC annual return showed 62,315 units of commercial concentrate was used for haemophilia treatment.

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RHSC annual return showed 123,998 units of commercial concentrate was used for haemophilia treatment.

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RHSC annual return showed 354,276 units of commercial concentrate was used for haemophilia treatment.

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RHSC annual return showed 682,732 units of commercial concentrate was used for haemophilia treatment.

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RHSC annual return showed 629,697 units of commercial concentrate was used for haemophilia treatment.

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