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The Scottish regional transfusion centre national computer system (DOBBIN) was upgraded to allow records to be shared between and across centres.

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In a letter, Dr Geoffrey Tovey advised Dr Marcela Contreras that an HIV positive donor had been discovered donating at several centres under different names.

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Drs Contreras, John Barbara, and Moya Briggs wrote an article about a donor who was asked to refrain from blood donation until further notice as one of his donations had caused jaundice in the recipient. Despite this, he returned as a new donor seven months later and his donation was given to a patient.

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The North London Regional Transfusion Centre set up a library of samples of donations.

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In England and Wales, the system for reporting transfusion reactions was for Dr John Barbara to collate known cases and send a report annually to the Centre for Disease Surveillance and Control at the Public Health Laboratory Service.

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Dr Huw Lloyd, Dr Alan Beal and Mr Tony Martina produced a report entitled "Record Storage Report for the National Blood Transfusion Service in England and Wales" for the National Directorate. This recommended that donor and donation records and policy and management records, as well as records directly linked to donor and donation records such as QA reports, should be kept for 30 years.

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The Director of South London Transfusion Centre reported a case of jaundice in a patient with haemophilia to Dr William Maycock and provided the batch number of the Factor 8 implicated.

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The Glasgow and West of Scotland Blood Transfusion Service shared information with Dr John Barbara concerning the number of donors found to have HBsAg, so that it could be reported for the national survey.

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In their first meeting, the Expert Advisory Group on AIDS agreed unanimously that statutory notification of HIV was not required and that an informal approach was to be preferred. They also concluded that the blood donor leaflet required redrafting, "particularly with regard to its objective of persuading homosexuals not to donate blood".

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An incident of an HIV-infected donor at a regional transfusion centre in the Yorkshire region was reported to the Principal Scientific Officer.

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In a meeting, Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service directors accepted that a system for reporting AIDS cases would be agreed with the Communicable Diseases (Scotland) Unit.

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Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service directors agreed that the Communicable Diseases (Scotland) Unit's form should be used for reporting AIDS cases.

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Dr Chitra Bharucha produced a document summarising present practices with respect of recognition and investigation of transfusion-associated hepatitis in Northern Ireland. It was noted that reports from GPs were seldom received even though they saw a significant number of patients with milder clinical attacks.

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Dr Chitra Bharucha gave written evidence to the Inquiry, stating that there was no HIV database for donors in the Northern Ireland Blood Transfusion Service. Dr Bharucha recalled that there were two donors who were confirmed positive for HIV.

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Three cases of suspected AIDS in people with haemophilia were reported in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

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The Department of Health and Social Security was alerted to "considerable publicity in the next couple of weeks concerning the safety of American Factor VIII."

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The Second International Symposium on Infections in the Immunocompromised Host was held. A paper was presented, which referred to "an alarming epidemic of...AIDS...in certain cities in the United States."

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In his statement to the Penrose Inquiry, Professor Ian Hann described the Second International Symposium on Infections in the Immunocompromised Host, where he was first exposed to the problem of AIDS, as a "bombshell".

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In his oral evidence to Inquiry, Professor Ian Hann stated that he left the Second International Symposium on Infections in the Immunocompromised Host thinking that AIDS was likely caused by a new viral agent and that it might possibly be relevant to patients with haemophilia.

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In her statement to the Inquiry, Dr Elizabeth Mayne recalled discussing with Dr John Craske, Professor Arthur Bloom and Dr Peter Kernoff an article published in The Lancet, which suggested the possibility of an infective agent for AIDS.

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