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In Scotland, Martin Bell of the SIBSS confirmed that SIBSS would assist applicants in making a claim by speaking to the GP or health board to access records to support an applicant's claim.

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The proposals made by the Financial Review Group were accepted by Shona Robison, Cabinet Secretary for Health, Wellbeing and Sport, in March 2016.

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Inquiry updates guidance for criticism in final report

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Inquiry publishes supplementary report on virology

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Newsletter

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Evidence Based Blood Transfusion Agenda of symposium hosted by UK CMOs was attended by transfusion experts, clinicians, NHS managers and health authority chief executives across the UK.

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The CMO's National Blood Transfusion Committee was established for England and North Wales to encourage good local blood transfusion practice and implementation of national transfusion guidelines.

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A review was undertaken about the practice of single-unit transfusions which noted that the practice of single-unit transfers incurred the risk of transmitting infection, amongst other risks.

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Memo from Dr McGovern outlined a new open and up-front partnership between the UK NHS blood services and the public based on the recognition that the safety of blood cannot be guaranteed and that avoiding transfusion wherever possible must be an aim of clinical care.

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The 1954 edition of Notes on Transfusion noted that a transfusion should never be given without a definite indication

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Expert Report to the Infected Blood Inquiry on Bleeding and Blood Disorders noted that tranexamic acid is effective in major trauma and was sometimes used in the 1970s in dental extractions and peri-operative settings for the treatment of people with bleeding disorders.

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Department of Health's Notes on Transfusion for 1973 noted that a transfusion should never be given without a definite indication. The same text was published in the earlier Notes on Transfusion for 1963.

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Williamson et al's editorial titled 'A SHOT in the arm for safer blood transfusion' outlined a new surveillance system for transfusion hazards

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The NHS Wales Blood Health Plan laid out its ambition that it would centre on good blood health and the use of blood components.

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In Wales, a Blood Policy Group was created in 2005 to replace the initial forum which had encountered difficulties in exerting real influence on the NHS.

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Letter from D Jones set out the minimum requirements for Hospital Transfusion Committees.

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Counsel Presentation on Hospital Transfusion Committees noted that it was difficult to conclusively establish when each HTC within a sample across the UK was set up, though the broad picture was that they had spread to most major hospitals by the end of the 1990s.

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Professor Dame Marcela Contreras confirmed that she saw from observation of what she described as a miracle for some babies who received fresh war blood, that it might indeed have some intra-operative advantages, though she did not express a concluded view.

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Dr George Galea, the director of Inverness and North of Scotland Blood Transfusion Service, recalled teaching medical students about the risks of transfusions and that "the safest blood is the blood that's not given."

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In her oral evidence to the Inquiry Dr Lorna Williamson noted the existence of a maximum blood ordering schedule in the 1990s, which Dr Williamson believed to be routine in hospitals at that time.

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