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Dr Harrison did not consider plasmapheresis to be an efficient way to collect plasma.

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When Dr Jean Harrison started there was no other consultant at the Brentwood transfusion centre so she had to get cover from other centres when she went on holiday.

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Some people at the North East Thames RTC were reluctant to give blood for cultural and socio-economic reasons.

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Oxford had a similar agreement with North East Thames RTC to collect donations on its behalf.

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According to her statement, Dr Jean Harrison preferred to use recovered plasma because this was in her view a much cheaper way to reach targets.

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The South West RTC increased its plasma offering to BPL by getting agreement from treating haematologists in its region to restrict the amount of cryoprecipitate (produced from locally sourced plasma) in favour of the use of Hemofil.

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The Yorkshire RTC failed to meet its plasma targets due to an industrial dispute, increased use of cryoprecipitate and fresh frozen plasma locally and the loss of 10,000 donations.

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Yorkshire RTC's 1990 target for plasma was revised down.

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Yorkshire was an early adopter of automated plasmapheresis, first opening a centre in Bradford.

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The Northern Centre was producing the third highest amount of plasma in England and Wales, behind North London and Yorkshire.

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Dr Huw Lloyd told the Inquiry that a third barrier to the Northern RTC meeting its targets was the RHA's approach to funding plasma collection.

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Until Dr Huw Lloyd joined the Northern Centre, there had been only one full-time consultant at the centre.

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The Northern RTC had no role in allocating product, they acted as an intermediary in transferring product between BPL and the end user.

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There were periods of difficulty for the Northern RTC in terms of donor numbers as a result of shipyards and steelworks closing down in the North East and the loss of donors who had donated at workplace sessions.

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Due to the pro rata system operated by BPL, even when the Northern RTC sent the same amount of plasma as the previous year, they could receive 50% less product back because other RTCs had increased their production and Northern RTC had thus supplied a smaller proportion of the total plasma that year.

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The Northern area was one of the biggest users of whole blood in the country.

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The Northern Centre was producing the third highest amount of plasma in England and Wales, behind North London and Yorkshire.

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Dr Lloyd identified three barriers to Northern RTC achieving plasma targets: limited and outdated facilities, the belief that hospitals needed whole blood rather than red cells, and the RHA's approach to funding plasma collection.

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Dr Lloyd mooted that the RHA may have thought money was better spent on commercial product and that his predecessor might have advised the RHA that BPL had insufficient capacity to process plasma.

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The number of units of blood collected was less than in the previous year in Northern Ireland due to the "effects of the recession with the resulting factory closures and pay-offs".

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