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In oral evidence Ms Elisabeth Buggins, Ms Brenda Haddock and Ms Christine Woolliscroft described a lack of historic communications on the severity of hepatitis and the risks of contracting hepatitis from concentrates.

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Elizabeth Buggins asked by the hospital to seek support elsewhere because staff at the hospital were becoming burdened. When she gave oral evidence to the Inquiry, her memory was quite clear that the doctors "encouraged us not to ask unless they felt we really needed to know"

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Brenda Haddock stated Dr Hill stressed "that it's in the boys' best interests to carry on with the treatment."

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Brenda only discovered that Andrew had been infected with HIV accidentally when looking through his notes when he was a hospital inpatient. When the hospital knew and the family did not, Brenda continued to treat Andrew thereby being put at risk herself.

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Parents of a child treated at Birmingham Children's Hospital were not told that he had been infected with HIV - their son, still a child, had been told at an outpatient appointment with Dr Hill; he assumed (understandably) that his parents had already been told, and did not speak to them about it because of that assumption.

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Christine Woolliscroft, whose son Michael was treated at Birmingham Children's Hospital, recalled in a meeting she was told her son was fine. A year and a half later, she was told by Dr Hill that he had HIV. She discovered post-mortem that Michael had been infected with Hepatitis C from a doctor in casual conversation.

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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 patient at Birmingham Childrens' Hospital had been unaware that he had been HIV positive until he was transferred to Stoke-on-Trent Haemophilia Centre, where his new clinician said, "Hello, I see you're HIV positive."

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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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