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It was agreed that Scotland should provide its own supply of fractions before undertaking work for the NBTS in England.

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John Watt, of the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service, reported to the DHSS that a fifth of stored plasma had been processed.

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Dr Maycock wrote to the DHSS to tell them 25,000 litres of plasma per year would be available for fractionation by PFC, to begin in the autumn.

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Dr Maycock estimated BPL/PFL's contribution was 17.5 million international units per annum for England.

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SHHD said that it should be prepared for the PFC to be accepted as a pharmaceutical factory-type development.

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Within his oral evidence to the Inquiry, Dr Peter Foster explained how a fractionation centre should support a population of at least 15 million to be economically viable.

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Within a letter from John Watt to Robert Roberts, John Watt stressed that the plant was considerably underutilised and could process blood to serve a population of around 25 million.

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Within a letter from David Stevenson to A Eason a possible solution was proposed regarding the problem of securing an agreement acceptable to the workforce if asked to run a 24-hour shift system.

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A letter from Alec Parrott to Susan Maunsel stated that "even if all the difficulties in shift working at Liberton could be overcome tomorrow, it would not be regarded as sensible policy to put all our eggs in the Scottish basket as the planners appear to have originally intended."

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In 1981, a trial of shift working was conducted at Edinburgh and it was determined that the CSVM system was capable of continuous operation for periods of at least 120 hours.

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A memo from Dr Archibald McIntyre to Angus Macpherson examined further consideration the possibility that PFC might make a contribution to the supply of factor concentrates in the UK.

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Dr Lane saw PFC as being useful to England only for recovering albumin from time-expired plasma.

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Within "Notes on Feasibility Exercise Performed at Protein Fractionation Centre Liberton" it was stated instead of examining three-shift working patterns, the trial involved two shifts, each of 12 hours.

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Angus MacPherson wrote a letter to John Harley outlining that the necessary building works could be completed in approximately two and a half years.

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John Walker wrote a letter to John Cashman advising a substantial proportion of the £6-7 million identified by Angus MacPherson would be needed to rectify the shortcomings which the Medicines Inspectorate had identified in its processes.

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Within his witness statement to the Inquiry, Dr Peter Foster advised it was known to be unlikely that PFC would begin production before the end of 1973. Construction began in 1971. It continued until 1974.

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Within a Blood Products Laboratory report it was explained if PFC processed plasma to produce Factor 8 for England, then less would be needed to be spent on BPL.

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Professor Tuddenham commented on a legal opinion to the Haemophilia Society, writing "Would the provision of home produced concentrate have reduced the number of HIV infected patients? The answer here must very clearly be 'yes'".

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Professor Edward Tuddenham was asked within his oral evidence to the Inquiry if it remained his view that if self-sufficiency had been achieved, that a considerable number of cases of AIDS would have been avoided, to which he responded yes.

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Professor Michael Makris advised within his witness statement to the Inquiry that he believed that, had the UK been self-sufficient in concentrates, the number of HIV infections in haemophilia patients would have been a lot less.

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