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The Working Party on Autologous Transfusion produced guidelines for pre-deposit autologous transfusion in 1993.

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The number of referrals to autologous transfusion service doubled in 1997 in Scotland.

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The Chief Medical Officer's National Blood Transfusion Committee published a leaflet titled "Indication Codes for Transfusion - An Audit Tool".

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The April 2004 guideline on caesarean section referred to transfusion only where there is an increased risk of blood loss greater than 1,000ml.

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HTCs were promoted internationally by organisation such as the World Health Organization.

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A study published in 1983 regarding blood use by consultant surgeons, anaesthetists and house surgeons at five hospitals in Wessex found "substantial and unintentional over-ordering" of blood by junior staff.

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A study into blood usage in the Tayside region of Scotland noted that the auditing of blood ordering practices was a much neglected area in surgery.

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The US adopted a similar approach to the UK in terms of carrying out major surgical procedures unless haemoglobin was at least 10.4%.

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Statutory Instruments of the Blood Safety and Quality Regulations 2005 were published.

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Dr Tony Napier's book, "Blood Transfusion Therapy: A Problem-Orientated Approach", was published.

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Mollison's "Blood Transfusion in Clinical Medicine" was published.

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Professor Mollison's book stated that pre-operative transfusions could be avoided if it were a routine practice to determine the patient's haemoglobin concentration at the time when operation is first considered.

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Professor Mollison within his textbook stated that before surgery was undertaken haemoglobin should be raised above 10g/100ml

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NICE guidelines on Tranexamic acid use was published.

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NICE Quality Standard on Blood Transfusion was published.

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There was mandatory training of a maximum of seven years and all doctors had to be on the GMC register of specialists before being able to take up a substantive consultant post

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Dr Richard Aach commented on the report of the TTV study group: "the evidence was predictive rather than absolute - the same type of evidence that served as a basis for adoption of routine testing of donors for HBsAg in order to reduce Type B hepatitis transmission by transfusion".

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At a meeting of the ACVSB Group meeting it was stated that anti-HBc testing alone was insufficient to eradicate post-transfusion hepatitis.

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In a press conference, Professor Gallo termed the virus that caused AIDS "HTLV-III", despite evidence that it was an HTLV virus being tenuous.

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Following Professor Gallo's HTLV-3 press conference, the US Secretary of State for Health predicted there would be a test to screen blood widely available within six months.

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