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Dr Jason from CDC gave a presentation on AIDS and reported that HIV was dry heat treatment at 68C for 24 hours inactivated HIV.

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Dr Alfred Prince conducted his further study and found that pasteurisation at 60C in the dry state had only a modest process efficacy for inactivation of HTLV III/LAV.

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In a letter, it was noted that there had been disruption to the Royal Hospital's dental service due to uncertainty over the putative risk associated with CJD.

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The Deputy Crown Agent within the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service proposed to seek Crown Counsel's advice on whether there was sufficient justification for a criminal investigation into the supply of blood products to people with haemophilia in Scotland.

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Limited funding from the primary care trust led to the need to wait for Hepatitis C treatment at Addenbrooke's Hospital for a patient infected via contaminated blood products.

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Colette Wintle wrote to Kent Police to request a criminal investigation into patients having been infected from NHS treatment.

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Dyfed Powys Police informed Colette Wintle that they were consulting with the Crown Prosecution Service on what was required to conduct a criminal investigation into patients having been infected through NHS treatment.

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The General Medical Council asked case examiners to amend their original case examiners' forum decision regarding allegations of a failure to inform a patient of test results.

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Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman found that there had been maladministration by University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, in response to a complaint by Jason Evans.

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"Review of the NHS Hospitals Complaints System - Putting Patients Back in the Picture" was published which made a number of recommendations for change in the approach to complaints.

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The functions and purposes of a public inquiry were described in a report of the Public Administration Select Committee.

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Mike Deegan from the Manchester Royal Infirmary wrote a letter to an Inquiry witness providing the results of an investigation about a complaint made about the treatment provided to the witness' brother.

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A complaint by Khalid Mahmood regarding the care and treatment provided to his late wife for liver disease was partially upheld by the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman.

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Raymond Wildsmith from the CPS provided an advice statement regarding the treatment of people with haemophilia. He advised that while any investigation would have significant difficulties he had identified possible criminal offences.

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Detective Chief Inspector Linda Little stated in a memo that there was no evidence that a specific group of people with haemophilia were deliberately infected with contaminated Factor 8 at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.

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Carol Grayson, Colette Wintle and others made a complaint to the Metropolitan Police regarding the infection of people with haemophilia with contaminated blood products.

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Professor Charles Vincent, giving evidence as part of the Public Health and Administration Expert Group, observed that "for instance, there are multiple ways of raising concerns in the NHS but it's quite hard to know where you want to go ... It works very variably.

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Stephen Heath in his statement to the Inquiry described the report on supply of blood products to people with haemophilia in Scotland as a "scoping exercise"; it was not his role to decide whether an investigation should be undertaken, although it was his personal view that the issues merited a criminal investigation.

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Carol Grayson, who complained to the GMC in February 2003 regarding Dr Peter Jones' testing and treatment of her husband Pete Longstaff, stated "that Dr Jones was privy to all our allegations but his responses to them were not disclosed to us throughout the course of the complaint."

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J E Lewis, Detective Chief Superintendent (CPS) wrote a letter to Carol Grayson in relation to criminal offences considered by the Crown Prosecution, enclosing a summary of those offences.

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