- Asked by: Carolyn Leckie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Socialist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 May 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 16 May 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many patients received blood or blood products identified, either prospectively or retrospectively, as containing the hepatitis C or non-A, non-B hepatitis virus in each year from 1978 to 1992.
Answer
The Scottish NationalBlood Transfusion Service has identified 139 patients, through it’s lookback processand subsequent investigations, who received blood containing the hepatitis C virusup to the introduction of screening in 1991.
- Asked by: Carolyn Leckie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Socialist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 May 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 16 May 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many patients were transfused with blood in each year from 1978 to 1992.
Answer
I refer the member to the answerto question S2W-25581 on 16 May 2006. All answers to written parliamentary questions are availableon the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Carolyn Leckie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Socialist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 May 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 16 May 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what estimates it has of the number of people who may have contracted hepatitis C but have not yet received a diagnosis and whether it will provide any or all documentation in relation to this matter.
Answer
It is estimated that 50,000individuals are currently living in Scotland who are HCV antibody positive, the majority of whomcontracted their infection through injecting drugs and 33,500 of whom remainundiagnosed. Of the 16,500 formally diagnosed, 400 (2.4%) of these areconfirmed as having contracted their infection through blood transfusion orblood products. The source of this data can be found from the paper within the Scottish Medical Journal 2006, Vol 51, Issue 2, Hutchison SJ, et al, HepatitisC Virus Infection in Scotland: Epidemiological review and public health challenges.
- Asked by: Carolyn Leckie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Socialist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 May 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 16 May 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will make available any documentation which explains the estimated number of patients who may have received blood infected with hepatitis C or non-A, non-B hepatitis virus.
Answer
Soldan et al Epidemiologyand Infection (2002) Volume 129:587-591 estimates the numbers infected prior to 1991 and is the source for thefigure for England that was quoted in the preliminary Report by LordRoss. Estimates from 1993 onwards are contained in VoxSanguinis; 2003 May;84(4):274-86. Estimates for Scotland used the same methodology but reflected the data from the Scottish HCV lookback programme.
- Asked by: Carolyn Leckie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Socialist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 May 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 16 May 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have become infected with blood-borne viruses following clinical trials, broken down by time and location of the trial since 1978.
Answer
The Scottish NationalBlood Transfusion Service (SNBTS) are not aware of any cases of transmission of the hepatitis C virus in any clinical trials of SNBTS products.
- Asked by: Carolyn Leckie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Socialist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 May 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 16 May 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many patients who have been identified as having received blood contaminated by hepatitis C or non-A, non-B hepatitis virus, in each year from 1978 to 1992, have been contacted by health services following look back execises.
Answer
This was a matter for the cliniciansresponsible.
- Asked by: Carolyn Leckie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Socialist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 May 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 16 May 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to initiate a recall of patients who received blood during the period when the hepatitis C or non-A, non-B hepatitis virus was likely to have been present in the donor pool to offer screening and appropriate counselling and care to those who have not already been offered such services.
Answer
The lookback exercise whichwas undertaken by the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service has traced asfar as practicable patients who may have received blood infected with the hepatitisC virus. If any new cases of suspected infection from blood transfusion priorto introduction of testing arise, further investigation and lookback actionwill be carried out.
- Asked by: Carolyn Leckie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Socialist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 May 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 16 May 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what the hepatitis C or non-A, non-B hepatitis virus infectivity rate was in donated blood in each year from 1978 to 1992.
Answer
I refer the memberto the answer to question S2W-22585 on 16 May 2006. All answers to written parliamentaryquestions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for whichcan be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Carolyn Leckie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Socialist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 May 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 16 May 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average time was between infection and diagnosis for those with (a) hepatitis C or non-A, non-B hepatitis or (b) HIV among the (i) drug-injecting and (ii) non-drug-injecting population in each year from 1978 to 1992.
Answer
Information is not availableto answer the question as there are no tests which indicate when an individualacquired HIV or hepatitis C. In addition, people who become infected with theseviruses rarely present with an acute illness.
Data were not collected fornon-A and non-B hepatitis.
- Asked by: Carolyn Leckie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Socialist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 May 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 16 May 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many units of blood were transfused in each year from 1978 to 1992.
Answer
This information is not centrallyavailable. Data on the number of units transfused during this period was held locally.
