Monday, April 10, 2006

Safety fears over plasma products

Sunday Herald: "PRODUCTION of blood plasma medicines at an NHS facility in Scotland was halted after regulators found many quality control faults, the Sunday Herald can reveal...

MSP Carolyn Leckie, health spokes woman for the SSP, said any plans to privatise the centre, which emerged as a possibility last year, would not help.

She added: “Privatising it is just going to remove any accountability altoge ther. It should be invested in. They have known what the problems are for decades, they have just refused to put the money in.”"