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Professor Bloom wrote to Dr Lane seeking comments on his draft notes of Reference Centre Directors meeting on 14 December 1984.

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UKHCDO's AIDS Group was told that the Haemophilia Reference Centre AIDS Advisory Document dated 14 December 1984 was sent to all haemophilia centres in the UK.

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UKHCDO's AIDS Group heard a difference of opinion with regard to Factor 9. "Some Centres had stopped using NHS factor IX and were now using heated commercial factor IX while others intended to continue for the meantime with the unheated NHS factor IX."

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Annual return for 1983 shows Frimley Park Haemophilia Centre treated 4 Haemophilia A patients and 1 von Willebrand's disease patient that year.

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Dr Winter told the Penrose Inquiry that by December 1982 it should have been clear to clinicians that AIDS was a disorder transmissible by blood and blood products and that it was "the only clinical interpretation of the data that was available."

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A paper titled "Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome: Infection and Neoplasia in Homosexual Men and Intravenous Drug Addicts" was presented to the Second International Symposium on Infections in the Immunocompromised Host. The paper named blood as a potential vehicle of AIDS infection.

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In his letter to The Lancet, Dr Jones recommended "continued, careful surveillance of the severely affected haemophilic population." Yet it made no mention of a virus as an infective agent.

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In a letter to the Press Council, Dr Jones lodged a formal complaint about an article on The Mail on Sunday with the headline "Hospitals using killer blood". He argued that there was no proof that a virus was the cause of AIDS nor that it was imported from the US.

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In a letter to colleagues, Dr Jones stressed that the link between AIDS and Haemophilia is weak and warned against withdrawing Factor 8 treatment.

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Dr Jones rejected the need for a change in treatment policy partly because the emergence of HIV/AIDS "in a few haemophiliacs does not necessarily reflect the tip of an iceberg".

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After 1983, Dr Jones would have children from around the age of six transferred from cryoprecipitate to concentrate for home therapy.

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Dr Frank Boulton stated to the Penrose Inquiry "Peter Jones and many like him were reluctant to... go back ten years or so to the style of treatments usually only cryoprecipitate or small pooled products which would reduce the dosage that children could get and return them to a risk of getting permanent joint damage from their early years".

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Dr Boulton felt that Dr Jones was "still being somewhat less than cautious" with regard to his attitude towards the risk of AIDS.

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Commercial concentrates continued to be the mainstay of treatment at the Newcastle Haemophilia Centre in 1983.

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Commercial concentrates continued to be the mainstay of treatment at the Newcastle Haemophilia Centre in 1984.

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Dr Jones formed the view in the course of November 1984 that there should be a change to heat-treated Factor 8 and took steps to secure the regional health authority's agreement to that change.

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Dr Jones did not take steps to recall existing unheated product from patients: instead they were told to use up their present stocks and that the switch would be made when they came back for new supplies for their home therapy.

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Dr Jones had checked with representatives of the three companies (Armour, Cutter, and Alpha) supplying concentrates to the Centre who had all agreed to take back present stocks of non-heat-treated material without any financial consequences to the Health Authority.

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Terence McStay was the second patient to die of AIDS in the UK and a patient at the Newcastle Centre. He returned to his home in Glasgow shortly after he was diagnosed, and died on 3 November 1984.

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In the Daily Mail, it was reported that "Terence McStay went through seven months of hell before he died."

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