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Professor Savidge described UKHCDO in the 1970s and 1980s as an isolated and autonomous advisory body without formal affiliation with the NHS, any Royal College or learned society (eg: British Society on Haematology) with its own self appointed working parties.

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Professor Savidge stated "extra money when found was spent on the purchase of commercial imported factor VIII concentrate, usually from the US, in preference to the safer cryoprecipitate that was the recommend [sic] treatment of children and mild haemophilia patients (assuming failure with DDAVP) generally available (in some regions in excess).

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St Thomas' Hospital's annual return for 1976 showed that cryoprecipitate and NHS Factor 8 were the most used products.

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St Thomas' Hospital's annual return for 1977 recorded that cryoprecipitate and NHS Factor 8 were the most used products.

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St Thomas' Hospital's annual return for 1978 recorded higher commercial concentrate use than NHS Factor 8.

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St Thomas' Hospital's annual return for 1978 shows recorded that over a million units of commercial Factor 8 were used that year.

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Professor Edward Tuddenham was co-director of the Royal Free Hospital.

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Royal Free Hospital began to use commercial concentrate.

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Royal Free's annual return recorded that Haemophilia A patients were treated primarily with cryoprecipitate, followed by commercial concentrates, then NHS Factor 8.

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Royal Free's annual return shows 2,102,310 units of cryoprecipitate, 601,681 units of commercial concentrates and 510,200 units of NHS Factor 8.

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Dr Katharine Dormandy wrote to Dr Richard Lane, describing the Royal Free's treatment policy "to use NHS-concentrate for patients on home treatment and for those who are allergic to cryoprecipitate."

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Dr Katharine Dormandy initiated home treatment with cryoprecipitate at the Royal Free.

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Drs Kernoff and Tuddenham became co-directors of the Royal Free and moved patients from cryoprecipitate to concentrate.

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Royal Free began to measure the ratio of T4 and T8 cells in patients with haemophilia.

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The policy of deferring the elective surgery commenced, as recalled by Professor Christine Lee.

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Dr Dormandy pioneered home therapy with cryoprecipitate, as recalled by Professor Christine Lee.

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Royal Free used, for the first time, more units of commercial concentrates than cryoprecipitate over the course of 1978.

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The volume of commercial concentrates used at the Royal Free in 1979 was double that of NHS Factor 8 and cryoprecipitate.

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At the meeting, Dr Kernoff stated Royal Free aimed to switch home treatment patients from cryoprecipitate to concentrate with currently (September 1978) still half of the home treatment patients still using cryoprecipitate which was deemed unacceptable.

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At the meeting, Dr Rankin commented their allocation had been reduced from 100 to 65 bottles of factor VIII due to shortage. This forced his reference centre to begin transferring patients to other Centres at a much younger age. Only half of their patients on home therapy could be treated with concentrate.

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