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The NHS Executive funded a national audit initiative relating to two blood transfusion protocols.

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Red cell salvage was not widely available or commonly used in the 1970s to 1990s as it specialist equipment and knowledge.

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The first meeting of the NBTC took place.

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SHOT published its first report covering 1996-97, which noted that 8 out of 169 reported serious hazards involved a viral or bacterial infection.

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The National Blood Transfusion Committee produced an online toolkit to implement the Better Blood Transfusion initiative.

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Although progress had also been made in relation to the Better Blood Transfusion Initiative, further progress was required for the training of staff, the development of hospital transfusion teams, the development of protocols for the appropriate use of blood, the provision of information to patients and intra-operative cell salvage.

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A Department of Health circular set out the Better Blood Transfusion Action Plan, and anticipated progress in all areas by the time of the first audit of compliance was to be undertaken.

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In Electronic identification systems reduce the number of wrong components transfused, it was noted that the implementation of electronic transfusions systems in the UK was patchy.

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An NHS funded national audit relating to two blood transfusion protocols demonstrated a considerable variation in the performance of standard blood transfusion procedures, and described the level of shortfall in practice as "alarming".

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A survey of 98% of NHS Trusts in England found that 27% of Trusts were not using tranexamic acid for trauma patients, and 30% were not using tranexamic acid for surgical patients.

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Dr Elizabeth Mayne stated she did not put HIV on the death certificate: "This question highlights a very difficult and thorny problem which affected all doctors in managing HIV deaths."

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Sir Donald Acheson gave evidence to to the Social Services Committee of the House of Commons. He referred to an arrangement whereby cause of death can be added in a
confidential way to a death certificate.

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Dr Peter Jones confirmed that each individual death involving HIV/AIDS was referred to the Coroner's Officer.

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Guy Dewdney explained how the delays caused by inquests was upsetting. His father died as a result of being given contaminated blood. There was a delay in the burial due to the coronial process.

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Sarah Gough recorded that when her father died of AIDS, they were visited by the coroner's officer that day: "because there was concern about what to put on my father's death certificate."

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A witness described how she was told by a doctor that "it was in my best interest not to record" her husband's HIV status on his death certificate.

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A witness described how Dr Christopher Ludlam took her mother aside when their father died and "explained that he wasn't going to put HIV as the cause of death on my father's death certificate. Dr [Ludlam] said that in his opinion my father would not have wanted it listed as the cause of his death. Instead...I think it states he had a brain haemorrhage."

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A woman was advised to have bronchopneumonia recorded on her husband's death certificate: "The Doctor advised me that this was the best course of action as if AIDS was on the certificate we wouldn't find anyone to bury him and that a cremation would be our only option (which is not what my husband wanted)."

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One woman promised her husband, infected with HIV and Hepatitis C from blood products, "that if he died the word 'HIV' would not be on his death certificate" because he was "extremely worried about people finding out that he had HIV."

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One woman stated that: "There was an inquest into [my husband's] death, which I did not want to be a part of because I couldn't face going through it all so soon after his death and I worried about the press finding out his HIV status."

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