HC Deb 27 February 2001 vol 363 cc619-20W
Mr. Gerald Howarth

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what guidance is issued to nurses about

Dr. Naysmith

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what counselling and advice his Department has made available to haemophilia patients who have received treatment products which are traced to a blood donor who has died of vCJD. [150861]

Mr. Denham

The United Kingdom Haemophilia Centre Doctors Organisation, in consultation with the Department, has agreed a policy of giving all haemophilia patients information about such incidents and offering them a choice to know if they or their children received implicated clotting factors. Counselling and advice to patients will be provided by haemophilia centres.