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A draft letter was prepared by Glasgow Royal Infirmary to send to all patients, inviting them to be tested for AIDs.

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A letter was sent out by Glasgow Royal Infirmary offering to discuss AIDS at the next clinic appointment, or earlier if the patient would wish it.

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Mr Colin Catterall was told he had Hepatitis C, roughly 30 years after he was infected.

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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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There was no system of batch dedication, despite their being some evidence of attempts to introduce one towards the end of 1984 or 1985 where there were attempts to introduce one.

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Dr Willoughby did not attend UKHCDO meetings and Dr Pettigrew asserted that Dr Willoughby did not disseminate UKHCDO material to her and her more junior colleagues at Yorkhill about NANB Hepatitis

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Dr Pettigrew noted during her hearings at the Inquiry that Dr Willoughby did not have any conversations with her about the risk of NANB Hepatitis and was not aware of NANB as a concept until liver biopsies were carried out on her haemophilia patients in 1984.

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Dr Pettigrew noted that there was no system from senior doctors of updating junior doctors with updates about medical and clinical developments

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Dr Pettigrew did not raise or discuss AIDS with Dr Willoughby in 1982 as Dr Pettigrew herself did not become aware of haemophiliacs contracting AIDS until 1983 and Dr Willoughby did not make her aware of this.

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Dr Pettigrew asserted that there was no steps taken while Dr Willoughby was director to reduce or minimise the risk of patients being infected with Hepatitis or AIDS.

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Dr Pettigrew noted that reliability of supply was a factor in Dr Willoughby's thinking noting that commercial concentrates tended to be used on home therapy and NHS for patients that were not.

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Dr Willoughby acted autonomously and did not communicate with the Royal Infirmary.

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There was no policy at Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Glasgow to inform parents about the risks of HIV and in relation to Hepatitis risks, the focus was on Hepatitis B.

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Dr Pettigrew admitted that tests were undertaken using stored samples when patients weren't aware that samples of their sera or their child's sera was being stored. In her testimony to the Inquiry, Dr Pettigrew asserted this practice took place at the Royal Hospital for sick children.

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