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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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At a Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service directors meeting, Dr Brian McClelland produced a revised AIDS leaflet for potential circulation to all donors, which would be discussed at a Co-ordinating Group meeting

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At a Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service directors meeting, it was agreed that an AIDS leaflet should be sent once to each blood donor as an enclosure with the call-up letter and for the directors to send Dr Brian McClelland's comments on the draft leaflet within two weeks.

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At a Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service directors meeting, further comments on Dr Brian McClelland's draft AIDS leaflet were made and it was finalised.

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At a Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service Co-Ordinating Group Meeting, it was decided that each Scottish regional transfusion centre would incorporate into their health questionnaire the words: "I have read the SNBTS AIDS leaflet (Important Message to Blood Donors) and confirm that, to the best of my knowledge, I am not in one of the defined transfusion-related risk groups".

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Dr Brian McClelland wrote to Dr John Cash confirming that the Edinburgh and South East Scotland Region had now introduced modified forms which asked the donor to sign a specific declaration that they had read the AIDS leaflet and were not in a risk group.

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At a Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service directors meeting, Dr Brian McClelland told the other directors about a leaflet from the Terrence Higgins Trust with a "clear explanation" and said it might be necessary to redraft the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service leaflet again.

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At a Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service Co-ordinating Group meeting, Dr Brian McClelland proposed to amend the health questionnaire to read: "if you think there is any reason why your blood should NOT be used for transfusion, please tick this box and you will not be questioned further", which he intended to run on a two-week trial.

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At a Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service directors meeting, it was agreed that the AIDS leaflets should be mailed to all active donors "wherever possible", although it was recognised that some centres might have great difficulty achieving it.

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Dr Smithies asked regional transfusion directors to consider again the effectiveness of measures to exclude high-risk donors. No particular actions was agreed. There was also the discussion of the latest iteration of the AIDS leaflet.

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At an Expert Advisory Group on AIDS meeting, it was acknowledged that people in high-risk groups were still coming forward to donate blood.

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The revised (fourth) AIDS leaflet had been printed and distributed to regional transfusion centres, with the expectation that it be distributed with donor call-ups.

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At a regional transfusion directors' meeting, it was agreed that those who had engaged in prostitution should be added to the list of risk groups on the next AIDS leaflet. The chairman also reported the initiation of a Scottish study regarding the effectiveness and acceptability of donor literature.

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