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At a meeting of Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service directors, Dr Brian McClelland explained he had amended his leaflet following a discussion with the Scottish Homosexual Rights Group.

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At a meeting of Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service directors, attendees discussed how best to deter certain donors without causing offence to others. It was suggested that a wide audience could be addressed through radio and television.

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The Glasgow and West of Scotland Transfusion Service added to its donor questionnaire a note asking if donors had heard of AIDS and stating that if they had any doubts about giving a donation they should consult the session doctor or their GP or write to the regional director.

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Dr Stanislaw Urbaniak sent a letter to Dr Brian McClelland stating that he felt it was premature to issue Dr Brian McClelland's AIDS leaflet to donors.

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At a meeting of the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service Co-ordinating Group, it was noted that each regional transfusion centre had a supply of AIDS leaflets, pending the lifting of the embargo on their release by the Minister for Health. Dr Cash had written to each of the regional transfusion directors and explained the method of issue of the leaflets was at their discretion.

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A national UK AIDS leaflet was published, accompanied by a press release from the Scottish Information Office

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At a meeting of Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service directors, it was noted that a range of different methods of use of the UK national AIDS leaflet were being deployed.

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At a meeting of Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service directors, it was noted that in the North East the UK national AIDS leaflets were available at all mobile and fixed site sessions.

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At a meeting of Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service directors, it was noted that in the West the UK national AIDS leaflets were available on request to the medical officer at sessions. It was also noted that Dr Mitchell had incorporated a question about AIDS into the "health notice".

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At a meeting of Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service directors, it was reported that the Belfast Regional Transfusion Centre had not received the UK national AIDS leaflets but would make them available at donor sessions once they were. Dr William Wagstaff also reported on the position in England and Wales.

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There was a decision not to recall an implicated PFC batch 023110090. Dr Brian McClelland explained to the Inquiry in his oral evidence that recalling that batch would have led to a huge gap in the supply available to patients.

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Dr Brian McClelland told the Inquiry in his oral evidence that it emerged there was very little of PFC batch 023110090 to recall, apart from a few units at the Aberdeen Transfusion Centre. The rest had already been transfused.

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Dr Brian McClelland told the Inquiry in his oral evidence that in retrospect he should have attempted to find a laboratory in the US to identify which donation had infected the Protein Fractionation Centre batch 023110090.

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Dr Brian McClelland told the Inquiry in his oral evidence that the North London Regional Transfusion Centre set up a library of samples around 1981-1982.

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Dr Brian McClelland told the Inquiry in his oral evidence that he was fairly sure the media was not used in June 1983 to address a wider audience of donors.

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Dr Brian McClelland told the Inquiry in his oral evidence that he had made clear to the other Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service directors that his leaflet was "public property".

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In the South East of Scotland the AIDS leaflets were made available at donor sessions.

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Dr Brian McClelland told the Inquiry in his oral evidence that he did not know whether other regions in Scotland made similar interim measures to include reference to AIDS in the call-up letters and leaflets.

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Dr Brian McClelland accepted in his evidence to the Inquiry that asking donors to sign a specific declaration that they had read the AIDS leaflet could have been part of the process from the outset in June 1983.

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In a letter to Dr John Cash, Dr Brian McClelland stated that as an interim measure a specific reference to AIDS had been added in the donor call-up letters sent out from the Edinburgh and South East Blood Transfusion Service, drawing attention to the leaflet, and adding specific questions and references to AIDS and the leaflet questionnaire completed by donors.

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