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The complaint against Dr Audrey Dawson was dismissed because there was "no suggestion that the Dr acted in anything other than the patient's best interests."

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In a complaint process against Professor Ludlam the investigating officer's view was that the realistic prospect test (of establishing impaired fitness to practise) was satisfied with regard to the allegations about the failure to inform the patient or his parents of the results of his tests, the failure to inform about the risks of treatment and of Professor Ludlam making a misleading statement to the GMC regarding the AIDS study.

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Khalid Mahmood gave a detailed account on the background to Shamin Mahmood's infection with, and diagnosis of, Hepatitis C in his statement.

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A witness' complaint was responded to regarding missing medical records that records had been destroyed in accordance with retention policies, although as the individual pointed out in correspondence reliance was placed on a retention policy which postdated the date given for destruction of the records.

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A request was made in December 2007 for Lothian and Borders Police Force to investigate the complaint of two individuals that Professor Ludlam knowingly infected them with AIDS through blood products.

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William Gilchrist asked Stephen McGowan, Principal Procurator Fiscal Deputy, to produce a report to Crown Counsel to consider whether or not there should be a criminal investigation into a complaint was made to the police in Scotland regarding the supply of blood products to people with haemophilia in Scotland.

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Lord Advocate Colin Boyd wrote to the Minister for Health and Community Care stating that Crown Counsel had decided that there would be no further investigation [into a complaint made to the police in Scotland regarding the supply of blood products to people with haemophilia in Scotland] because there was "insufficient evidence that any criminal offence has been committed."

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A complaint against the North Hampshire NHS Trust was reviewed by the Independent Review Panel. The panel found that the decision not to resuscitate the witness' husband had been reached without reference to or discussion with the patient or his wife, and that it had been inappropriate to remove samples from his body after his death without her consent.

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Some aspects of the complaint about a patient who was not resuscitated were upheld by the Health Services Ombudsman.

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Detective Superintendent Stephen Heath produced a report on the consideration of criminal proceedings in respect of the use of contaminated blood products, which provided an overview of circumstances to aid decision-making in establishing whether a criminal enquiry was merited.

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Mr AK, speaking of his haemophilia centre said: "They were out of their depth...it just seemed a bit weird, the director of haemophilia was trying to give us this drug [AZT] no-one knew very much about as a trial and it was just all very scary."

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A witness described how "It took about six years before [my husband] saw a Virologist and to find out how far the HIV virus had progressed. We were always worried as we didn't know what was happening."

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A witness described how the Genito-urinary and Sexual Health Clinic served all HIV patients with the exception of the haemophilia patients with HIV, who were ring-fenced within the haemophilia centre. This meant that her husband did not have the benefit of discussing treatment options with HIV specialists.

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A witness was infected with HIV in 1981 but his parents were not informed of his infection until 1988, when he was 14.

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A witness was concerned about the lack of specialist input into his HIV care, stating "Just because his haemophilia patients had developed HIV he suddenly hadn't developed a specialism in HIV himself".

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Brian Ahearn was concerned about his treatment for Hepatitis C: He stated that following his diagnosis "I should have been referred to a hepatologist straight away".

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Professor Charles Hay stated that in the late 1990s and early 2000s there was only had one hepatologist at the hospital, which was common in the NHS at this time. The hepatologist would offer advice and refer the patient back to the doctor who made the referral for further management.

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Robert James told the Inquiry: "the way haemophilia doctors saw us ... we were their 'children'. Because it was predominantly a young person's disease at the time because older haemophiliacs had died of bleeding before we had cryo, there was an awful lot of young children, and for haemophilia doctors, they saw us like that. And so they would just not refer us on to an appropriate immunologist".

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Robert James told the Inquiry that Drs Mark Winter and Has Dasani were good at keeping up to date with medical knowledge in the field.

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Mr AM spoke highly of the haemophilia doctors at Great Ormond Street Hospital. He expressed the view that haemophiliacs should have been systematically tested and a look-back exercise should have been carried out to ascertain those infected from the whole blood community. Specialist clinics with experts in HIV and hepatitis should have been developed.

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