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RTCs were accountable to their RHAs, with medical and scientific oversight from the regional medical officer.

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The Trent Regional Transfusion Centre encouraged the use of blood ordering schedules in local hospitals.

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Dr William Wagstaff tried to persuade haemophilia clinicians to revert to cryoprecipitate and keep away from commercial products as a result of HIV/AIDS.

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Dr William Wagstaff gave oral evidence to the Inquiry that if his regional transfusion centre had been asked to increase the production of cryoprecipitate at the centre, they would have been able to do so quickly.

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The Trent Regional Transfusion Centre kept a separate database of HIV donors and hepatitis donors. They also provided this information to the Centre for Disease Surveillance and Control.

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The Trent Regional Transfusion Centre kept samples of any donation sent to the Blood Products Laboratory for a year at the Laboratory's insistence, and for other donations, for a number of months in case there was a report of hepatitis.

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According to Dr William Wagstaff's evidence to the Inquiry, during a discussion on AIDS at a regional transfusion directors meeting, there was a consensus on discontinuing sessions in areas of high-risk donors, but the option of questioning donors at sessions was more contentious.

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Dr William Wagstaff began sending out the Department of Health and Social Security's AIDS leaflet to donors with call-up cards and handing them out at sessions.

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Professor Barbara accepted, when he gave evidence, that it was a premise of his and Professor Contreras's argument that NANBH infections were occasional and that they had the feeling that non-A, non-B was not as severe as hepatitis B. He further described his view of the value of surrogate testing being based on the limited number of post-transfusion hepatitis reports from clinicians.

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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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Within Professor John Barbara's evidence to the Inquiry he describes how there was some possible merit, certainly worth considering, of anti-HBc as an indication of past or present infection.

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Dr Barbara told the Inquiry that with hindsight, he did not believe there was any reason (provided they received the RIBAs) why the testing of the second generation tests couldn't have occurred in parallel with the introduction of testing for all donations.

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Dr Lorna Williamson confirmed in her oral evidence that there was never a need to take donations from prisoners at the Cambridge RTC as "the publicity was such we were inundated with donors".

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Haematologists in East Anglia met regularly at the East Anglian Blood Club. When Professor Jean-Pierre Allain, Dr Willem Ouwehand and Dr Williamson arrived in East Anglia, they requested to attend every meeting to discuss innovation in transfusion.

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According to Dr Lorna WIlliamson's evidence to the Inquiry, the East Anglia Regional Transfusion Centre promoted Blood Product Laboratory products over commercial products.

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Dr Lorna Williamson said in oral evidence that letters regarding the lookback exercise were received by BTS in East Anglia on a Friday, and that the lookback was to start at the centre on Monday.

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In her oral evidence to the Inquiry Dr Lorna Williamson noted the existence of a maximum blood ordering schedule in the 1990s, which Dr Williamson believed to be routine in hospitals at that time.

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During oral evidence to the Inquiry Dr Roger Moore confirmed that statement put across by counsel to the Inquiry which suggested that the Department of Health's view was "that the adverse effects they'd [individuals with haemophilia] suffered were unavoidable".

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During oral evidence to the Inquiry Dr Roger Moore confirmed that a meeting took place between the Haemophilia Society and John Moore, the Secretary of State, in relation to compensation.

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