Ms Michele Tait:

Part of the response to the State infecting patients was to establish a database of State infected patients. The individuals had to consent to their clinical data being used in a research-type database. The data is anonymised and it tracks the disease progression. We capture data such as age, gender and other conditions that they live with as well. I think somewhere between 75% to 78% of patients have consented to their data going into the database. The average age of patients who have consented to the database is 68 years of age and predominately there are more females than males because of the anti-D administration. We publish reports and we have a report that we will publish before the end of this year that details the clinical position of those patients. There are also demographics relating to age and the route of infection would be part of the data we collect.