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Dr Karl Landsteiner discovered blood groups.

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It was discovered that sodium citrate could be used as an anticoagulant. The anticoagulant allowed blood to be stored for a few days and ended the need for donor and recipient to be in the same room.

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The first tentative use of citrated blood which had been taken from a donor shortly before.

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Jack Copland inspired a group of walking donors to give transfusions of their blood to the Royal Infirmary in Edinburgh.

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An article in the British Medical Journal drew attention to the risk that transfusion could transmit hepatitis.

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The Method Observed in Transfusing the Blood out of One Animal into Another Philosophical Transactions was published.

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Frozen plasma was first developed.

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Plasma itself was first used in the treatment of haemophilia.

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The Treasury War Emergency Committee decided to finance two facilities in the UK to prepare freeze-dried human plasma, to take advantage of these benefits. One of these was to be situated "in the north".

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Dr Edwin Cohn and his team at Harvard discovered how the constituent parts of plasma could be separated for use. His process, known as "Cohn fractionation" was developed then, and its essential principles remain in use to this day.

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Cohn et al published Preparation and Properties of Serum and Plasma Proteins. IV. A System for the Separation into Fractions of the Protein and Lipoprotein Components of Biological Tissues and Fluids.

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The British Medical Journal published An Episode of "Homologous Serum Jaundice" drawing attention to the risk that transfusion could transmit hepatitis.

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The Practitioner published an article entitled Complications of Blood Transfusion in which Dr Jean Grant, the director of the regional transfusion centre in Oxford wrote: "The practitioner should satisfy himself that it is really necessary to give blood and that no other treatment would be equally efficacious even though it might take a little longer to achieve results".

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Within an expert report to the Inquiry Hepatitis C patients' experience was explored and it was noted that less than 20% of Hepatitis C patients experience the typical symptoms of acute hepatitis, such as malaise, fatigue and jaundice.

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Within an expert report to the Inquiry it was outlined how HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) is not AIDS.

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The "Journal of the American Medical Association" explained there was no laboratory test for either part of serum hepatitis until the discovery of an antigen associated with serum hepatitis in 1965.

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Frederic Durán-Jordà established one of the first blood banks in Barcelona.

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The Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister, Andrew Turnbull, wrote a letter to Stephen Alcock, Department of Health, which stated that the Prime Minister believed that the courts would uphold that the Government could not be considered negligent for having offered treatment that was considered safe at the time.

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The written answers to questions in "Hansard" record that on this date the Secretary of State for Health, Kenneth Clarke, announced in Parliament that the Government proposed to make an additional ex gratia payment through the Macfarlane Trust.

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A memo from Strachan Heppell to Mr McKeon recorded that Minister of Health's aim was to identify settlement proposals which would be accepted by campaigners, the Haemophilia Society and the general public, and would not set any unacceptable precedent by implying NHS liability for treatment which reflected the "best available medical information at the time".

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