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A memo from John Moore to the Prime Minister reinforced his view that it would not be wise to set a general precedent by accepting that the Government should provide a special compensation scheme.

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The Haemophilia Society published a Haemofact on AIDS and outlined that many individual claims might not succeed.

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Within a letter from Sir Donald Acheson (CMO) to Professor Arthur Bloom the CMO recorded that compensation raised many difficult issues.

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A newspaper article outlined: "Doctor Clarke resists call for AIDS compensation".

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A memo from Bernie Merkel to Joanne Herrick attached a briefing for MS(H)'s attendance at the meeting of the Backbench Health Committee.

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Briefing material for AIDS questions suggested the answer to a question about compensation was: "We will be considering this question fully since it has far reaching implications."

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Within a submission from Dr Moore to Malcolm Harris and Jenny Harper it was advised that in anticipation of increased pressure officials were examining ways of compensating people with haemophilia as a special case.

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Within a memo from Malcolm Harris to Dr Alison Smithies and others it was noted there was increasing pressure for people with haemophilia infected with AIDS by their Factor 8 therapy to receive state compensation.

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Within her written statement to the Inquiry, Edwina Currie explained how the option favoured by Tony Newton and herself was the idea of giving a sum of money to the Haemophilia Society to distribute as they thought best.

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Within a memo from Flora Goldhill to Malcolm Harris, it was stated that John Moore's view was that the present line against compensation should be maintained.

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"The Northern Echo" published a news article outlining Tony Newton's view that it would be hard to distinguish claims from those of other people who had suffered as a result of medical incidents involving no question of negligence.

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Edwina Currie said something along the lines of: "Good Christian people who wouldn't dream of misbehaving will not catch AIDS" and explained what she meant in her statement.

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Following his participation with the World Health Organization, Dr Brian McClelland circulated to the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service a paper which focussed on steps to reduce the risk of AIDS getting into the blood supply in Scotland.

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Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service directors discussed the methods of distributing leaflets and agreed that a more active approach would now be acceptable.

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In a letter to Dr Christopher Ludlam, Dr Frank Boulton raised concerns about the amount of Factor 8 that had been issued due to Dr Ludlam's home therapy programme. Dr Ludlam was warned that commercial concentrates might be required to meet his demand.

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In a letter to Dr John Cash, Dr Brian McClelland suggested the need for a peer review by the haemophilia directors, producing clear guidance as to a reasonable level of consumption of Factor 8.

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Dr Stanislaw Urbaniak increased the production of cryoprecipitate from 153 units to 425
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The North East Thames Regional Transfusion Centre informed the Oldchurch Hospital that they had received donations from donors who had tested positive for viruses such as HIV.

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Dr Geoffrey Tovey reported a potentially infected donation to the Blood Products Laboratory.

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In a letter to Dr Roger Moore, Dr Patricia Hewitt of the North London Blood Transfusion Centre set out the test it applied for reporting cases to the Blood Products Laboratory. The letter stated that: "We only report cases to BPL when we have assured ourselves that a report from a hospital concerning hepatitis in a transfusion recipient is likely to be associated with the transfusion."

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