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In his oral evidence Lord Clark said the former CMO Sir Henry Yellowlees was one of the officials, in all his many, many departments, one of the very senior and responsible officials who, shall he say, failed to impress him.

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Lord Clarke in his oral evidence said that despite his strong feelings about whether anything was done wrong, he believes what happened was probably the worst tragedy that's ever occurred, and that all the people he worked with were acutely aware of the human suffering that was being caused whilst HIV and other infections were spreading among haemophiliacs and they were desperately trying to find what was happening, and how to stop it.

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Lord Glenarthur approved a letter which stated that "in the absence of any screening test for AIDS we must ensure that all donations are, as far as possible, free from the possibility of infection."

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According to Lord Glenarthur's oral evidence, the discovery of HIV infections in Scotland through Scottish produced Factor 8 was not brought to his attention.

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Lord Glenarthur was not aware of the CSM(B)'s 13th July meeting regarding AIDs.

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According to Lord Clarke's oral evidence, Dr Spence Galbraith's letter to Ian Field was material that should have been seen by all ministers and that if it had been sent to Lord Glenarthur then it was likely to have come to him.

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In his oral evidence, Dr Wallis talked about how clinicians tended to read material relevant to their own area of medicine

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Dr Wallis told the Inquiry that all haematologists read the British Journal of Haematology, but only some would read Transfusion Medicine. His impression was that regional colleagues "were pretty good on picking up on guidelines that were published."

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In his oral evidence, Dr Wallis highlighted that the time when the clinician first developed a practice around the use of blood which became routine for them was an important factor in whether or not unnecessary use of blood was a feature of their clinical practice.

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In his oral evidence, Dr Wallis stated how surgeons were competitive and would be worried if they had excessive blood use compared to a colleague and so the use of feedback figures was an effective strategy for reducing blood use.

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Dr Benjamin Hudson noted that palliative care in liver disease is a developing subspecialty.

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Dr Hazel Woodland was of the view that resourcing was a problem in palliative care and care for hepatology patients generally.

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Dr Fiona Finlay noted that access to palliative case differs depending upon which country the patient is located in the UK.

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Dr Huw Lloyd's evidence to the Inquiry was that Dr Gunson never communicated to him that there was a funding reason holding up the commencement of screening.

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The onus was on individual clinicians to keep themselves up to to date with the latest medical knowledge; this was characterised by Professor Philip Steer as a "reactive rather than proactive arrangement"

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Dr Peter Foster gave evidence to the Inquiry about "Cold ethanol fractionation" deposited fibrinogen at its first stage, together with two proteins present in such small quantities as to be described as "trace proteins" - which became known as Factor 8, and von Willebrand factor.

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In his evidence, Dr Foster explained that John Watt considered a fractionation centre should support a population of at least 15 million to be economically viable meaning that the population of Scotland was too small, in his opinion, for the Protein Fractionation Centre to be economically viable, and he saw England as essential to the future survival of the Centre, as well as of benefit to England.

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Within his oral evidence to the Inquiry, Dr Peter Foster explained how a fractionation centre should support a population of at least 15 million to be economically viable.

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Dr Peter Foster stated in his oral evidence to the Inquiry that it was difficult dealing with a possible virus, the structure of which was unknown. However, both BPL and PFC managed to inactivate NANBH before the structure of Hepatitis C was known.

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Lord Waldegrave suggested that there would have been very little prospect of widening the settlement to include transfusion patients.

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