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Dr Donald Francis sent a memo to Dr Jeff Koplan with recommendations for the prevention of AIDS.

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Dr Harold Gunson produced a report for the National Blood Transfusion Service Co-ordinating Committee, stating that the National Blood Transfusion Service saw its professional role as encouraging the minimum use of blood and blood products consistent with clinical need and patient safety.

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Minutes of a regional transfusion directors meeting recorded that, since 1946, cases of serum hepatitis had been reported to Dr Maycock on a special form. The meeting stressed the importance of reporting serum hepatitis, reactions to infected blood and all severe reactions to regional transfusion directors without delay.

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At a meeting between the CMO at the Ministry of Health and the Directors of the London depots "plans were put forward for a post-war blood transfusion service. It was agreed that there should be a nationwide service managed centrally by the Ministry of Health".

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In June 1940 it was recommended that regional blood depots should be established close to teaching or large district hospitals in big cities. These later became known as regional blood transfusion centres.

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Dr Gunson succeeded Dr Tovey as consultant adviser in 1981 and, in light of challenges in finding a "unified date" to implement HIV antibody testing, he was asked to submit proposals for a centrally funded and managed service.

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An investigation by DHSS Central Management Services in 1986 identified deficiencies in the NBTS and made the following three recommendations: do nothing, create a special health authority, retain management of RTCs by regional health authorities but with formal coordination of the work of RTCs.

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The devolution of budgets to districts proposed in the NHS and Community Care Act meant that RTCs had to recover their operating costs through reimbursement for products and services. RTCs had to work closely with hospitals receiving their products and services, leading to the National Directorate being marginalised.

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It was concluded that the NBA should directly manage the Blood Products Laboratory, International Blood Group Reference Laboratory and the RTCs.

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Dr Maycock was consultant adviser on blood transfusions to the Minister of Health from 1946 and chaired regular meetings of the regional transfusion directors.

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At a regional transfusion directors meeting, concern was raised by some regional transfusion directors "that money was not available for normal capital expansion of the service; expansion in any particular branch of work could only be carried out by economising in another branch of work".

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At a meeting of regional transfusion directors there was a unanimous view that a national effort needed to be made to improve research and development.

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A report recommended that a central committee for the NBTS be created.

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Officials from the Welsh Office, Scottish Home and Health Department and the Department of Health and Social Securities of Northern Ireland attended the meetings of the Advisory Committee of the NBTS as observers in the 1980s.

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The central committee for the NBTS first met.

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At a meeting of the regional transfusion directors it was recorded that regional health authorities "were still awaiting some general guidance on the National Blood Transfusion Service from DHSS".

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At a meeting of regional transfusion directors the DHSS was asked to consider providing advice to regional health authorities on the relationship between regional health authorities and regional transfusion directors.

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According to the British Journal Editorial the reason for a shortage in the supply of blood was due to the poor management of the Blood Transfusion Service from the late 1950s onwards and a lack of effective "national planning". The proposed "remedy" was an evaluation of a national policy for the sourcing and distribution of blood.

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Dr Maycock stated that "An efficient modern blood transfusion service does not really fit at all into the pattern of the NHS". He also lamented the NBTS' lack of a central laboratory and pointed out how the Blood Products Laboratory had not been originally designed to handle large scale fractionation of blood products.

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Dr Owen responded to a parliamentary question that Factor 8 supplies provided by the NHS were insufficient, so supplies had been purchased, exceptionally, by central commercial contract from the US, which had provided adequate supplies. He also noted that NHS production of Factor 8 had been increasing but this would depend on production capacity of regional transfusion centres.

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