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The director of the North London Blood Transfusion Centre wrote to colleagues anticipating that a pamphlet on AIDS would soon be available, but that in the meantime "there must be no questioning of donors about their private lives".

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The North West and North East Thames Regional Transfusion Centres had agreed that if donors past retirement age had given blood at least four times in the previous five years, including once in the previous twelve months, they could continue to give blood for up to five more years.

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England and Wales adopted the policy of allowing donors past retirement age to continue to give blood for up to five more years if they had given blood at least four times in the previous five years, including once in the previous twelve months.

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In a regional transfusion directors meeting, Dr Harold Gunson commented that the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service were looking at the possibility of recruiting donors from the age of 17.

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At a meeting of regional transfusion service donor organisers and donor services managers, Mairi Thornton described the Scottish experience of lowering the donor age limit as an unqualified success.

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According to Dr Morris McClelland's evidence, the closure of factories in Northern Ireland had an adverse impact on donor recruitment.

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The National Management Committee decided that a minimum interval of 12 weeks between donations for male donors would be accepted as a national standard.

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The National Blood Transfusion Service began debarring donors who were suspected of or admitted to illicit drug-taking.

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National Blood Transfusion Service guidance stated that individuals with a history of jaundice or hepatitis may be accepted as donors, in contrast with recommendations from the International Society of Blood Transfusion and the American Red Cross.

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Dr William Maycock wrote to regional transfusion directors recommending that the blood service should begin excluding "at once" any donor who had a history of jaundice.

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Regional transfusion directors accepted Dr William Maycock's recommendation to exclude donors with a history of jaundice.

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Regional transfusion directors agreed that those with a history of jaundice at birth or obstructive jaundice (not viral) could be accepted as donors.

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A donor wrote to the Wessex Regional Transfusion Centre about a mild attack of hepatitis and to arrange a blood test in 12 months to assess his eligibility to give donations.

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Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service guidance allowed donors with childhood jaundice/hepatitis who had recovered fully to donate (but deferred those with adult jaundice/hepatitis), donors who did not have Hepatitis B could be accepted one year after full recovery, those with Hepatitis B who wanted to donate would be referred to the centre for individual consideration, and those who had ever injected drugs would be deferred permanently.

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The Advisory Committee on the Virological Safety of Blood advised that the National Blood Transfusion Service "should re-consider its acceptance as blood donors of those who had had jaundice 12 months ago; anti HBc testing was recommended before acceptance."

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The second edition of the Department of Health's Guidelines for the Blood Transfusion Services was published. The revised donor criteria explicitly excluded those infected with Hepatitis C.

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In their closing submissions to the Inquiry, the NHSBT concluded: "It may well be that the memorandum [guidelines] did not keep track with the practice on the ground...insofar as the failure to update the guideline document in line with developing knowledge led to infection the blood service apologises."

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The Committee of Ministers to the Council of Europe included the permanent deferral of persons with a past history of viral hepatitis as an example of good practice for national blood transfusion services wishing to draw up their own guidelines.

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In a letter in The Lancet, Dr Brian McClelland recorded the findings of a study of the prevalence of HBsAg in 9,257 new donors. HBsAg was detected in 1 of 792 with a history of jaundice. The letter noted "the viruses of 'non-A, non-B hepatitis' may be a significant cause of jaundice in this population."

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Dr Brian McClelland and his team at the South East Scotland Transfusion Centre in Edinburgh drew up their own guidelines entitled "Guide to Selection of Blood Donors".

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