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The Press Council adjudicated that the "Mail on Sunday" article using the headline "Hospitals using killer blood" was unacceptably sensational and that the article contained some inaccuracies and was unjustifiably alarmist.

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The "Mail on Sunday" published an article titled "Hospitals using killer blood".

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At a meeting of haemophilia centre directors attended by representatives of medical defence organisations, Department of Health and legal advisors of various health authorities to discuss HIV litigation, directors were advised they should agree to act as experts for plaintiffs. If they did not, plaintiffs would have to seek expert advice from outside the directors' group which they said was "undesirable and not in the best interests of anyone".

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Dr John Whittaker believed that journalist Susan Douglas' contact was "almost certainly Professor Allan Jacob".

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Closing submissions on behalf of SNBTS included an apology to those infected and affected.

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In their closing written submissions, the Scottish Territorial Health Boards expressed their sorrow for the tragedy and sincere contrition for the failures and shortcomings on their part.

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In the Haemophilia Society submission, a member mentioned the lacking of the Government in apologising for the "catastrophic effect on the lives of innocent and vulnerable people".

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In an interview between Lynda Finn and Dr Christine Lee, Dr Lee stated that she did not believe faults could be attributed and cynically, she thought that "the few patients driving this" were probably after money.

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In his written statement, Peter Burney commented how governments had let their citizens down by not keeping them safe and and that the government should at the very least, let every victim know that if anything happens to them their family's future was financially secure.

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Mrs U informed the inquiry that Dr Ludlam told her that her husband had contracted AIDS before his death and that she would have to be tested for AIDS which she subsequently was and was found not to have been infected with HIV.

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The Death Certificate of Mrs U's husband showed the cause of death to be acute myeloid leukaemia.

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In his written statement, Andrew March commented that it was unacceptable that individuals like himself who had been infected or affected by the contaminated blood scandal had to become researchers/campaigners in order to try and establish what happened and to reach the point of finally achieving a public inquiry and how this had adversely affected his life.

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In her written statement, Jackie Britton described how "the contaminated blood scandal hangs over me every day" and that campaigning "does take its toll."

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In his written statement, the father of a son infected with Hepatitis C stated that the NHS felt like a "closed shop" and that no one knew what was going on and nobody would take responsibility for what had happened.

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Two brothers who would die only months apart, Haydn and Gareth Lewis, were spurred on by the death of seven-year-old Colin Smith in 1990 to find out what had happened and why.

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In his written statement, Professor Ludlam stated he only learned in 1986 that Mrs U's husband had been infected with HIV from transfusion but he decided not to tell her on the basis of a "risk assessment" that the chance of her being infected with HIV was very small. It was, however, probable, because it would have been his "standard practice", that he shared this information with the GP.

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Professor Turner, on behalf of SNBTS, confirmed in a statement to the Inquiry that Mrs U's husband had received a platelet transfusion and that following the introduction of HIV donor testing in 1985 the donor was identified as being HIV positive when donating. Mrs U's husband was found to have received an infected platelet transfusion during the subsequent lookback process and Dr Gillon informed Professor Ludlam of this.

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In his written evidence, Lord Waldegrave stated that: "The change of position in 1992 on payments to individuals infected with HIV through blood or tissue transfer reflected "combined increased pressure in Parliament...from the media campaign and from allied correspondence".

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Susan Douglas, a journalist who had written the article "Hospitals using killer blood" on 1 May 1983 in the "Mail on Sunday", stated she had spoken to a clinician in Cardiff and was unable to recall the name of her source. In his written statement, Dr Whittaker stated that her contact was "almost certainly Professor Allan Jacobs".

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In its closing submission, the Department of Health and Social Care stated that "DHSC ministers and the wider Government will, in due course, react to the Inquiry's findings and recommendations but it has not wished to pre-empt that process by offering opinions now."

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