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Annual Returns for the Kent Haemophilia Centre were produced for 1982.

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It was realised that while factor VIII continued to be imported the potential existed for infections in the UK haemophilia population even more serious than hepatitis.

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The precise number of children infected with HIV as a consequence of their treatment at Alder Hey was unclear with a July 1987 report recording 16 cases.

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In 1977 Birmingham Children's Hospital treated its Haemophilia A patients predominantly with cryoprecipitate together with some commercial concentrate. No NHS Factor 8 was used that year.

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Annual Returns for Birmingham Children's Hospital 1978 showed Factor 8 concentrate outstripped cryoprecipitate, with more commercial concentrate being used than NHS. The use of cryoprecipitate had reduced substantially from the previous year.

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Annual Returns for Birmingham Children's Hospital 1979 showed commercial concentrate usage in 1979 was almost double that of 1978.

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Annual Returns for Birmingham Children's Hospital 1980 showed Factorate usage more than doubled from 1979.

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Memo from Barry Barber to Brian Dyos regarding the visit report of Birmingham Children's Hospital in February 1981. Factorate usage was the mainstay of treatment that year. Cryoprecipitate primarily used to treat those with Von Willebrand's disease.

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Annual Returns for Birmingham Children's Hospital 1983 recorded an increase in Factorate usage with no indication of an increase in cryoprecipitate use

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Annual Returns for Birmingham Children's Hospital 1984 recorded a very modest increase in the amount of cryoprecipitate used and an increase in NHS concentrate.

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Report on case for an additional Haemophilia Sister which outlined the increase in haemophilia workload annually and the number of sisters working at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital and Birmingham Children's Hospital.

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It was believed that doctors treating people with haemophilia were careful in explaining risks to their patients.

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The Haemophilia Society campaign was given a press launch on 13 October and the television programme "First Tuesday" was expected to run the issue in December or January.

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David Tomkinson had been diagnosed in 1985 and died on 12 April 1987, aged 28. Jacqueline Tomkinson, his wife, told the Inquiry that her family almost lost their family home and had to rely on family members to help pay their mortgage and look after the children whilst she worked and nursed her dying husband.

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One woman described how her father became progressively more ill in 1985 and eventually had to retire on medical grounds at the end of the year.

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The Cardiff patient, Kevin Slater, had been thought to be suffering from AIDS in spring 1983. Over the following two years his health deteriorated and he was repeatedly admitted to hospital. He died on 23 June 1985, aged 22.

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Lynda Maule described how hospital staff would not bring food into his room near the end of his life and no one wanted to enter his room describing that he was not treated like a human being. The funeral director did not want to enter his room to collect his body.

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Terry McStay was 34 when he died of AIDS on 3 November 1984, having first become ill in 1983.

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Terry McStay was described as just getting weaker and weaker and all his family could do was help relieve his pain.

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The Secretary of State for Health and Social Services, John Moore, stated that his initial reaction was that it would be most unwise to make the "further look" into the people with haemophilia case public.

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