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Blood Donation (PE1135)

Tuesday 16 June 2009 Public Petitions Committee Petitions 3 contributions · 2 speakers

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Frank McAveety Lab The Convener · Glasgow Shettleston
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PE1135, from Rob McDowall, calls on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Government to review existing guidelines and risk assessment procedures to allow healthy gay and bisexual men to donate blood. Do members have any suggestions about how we should deal with the petition?

Bill Butler Lab Glasgow Anniesland
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I have been informed that the Health Protection Agency in England is carrying out work on the exclusion of donors because of high-risk behaviour. As a result, I suggest that we suspend consideration of the petition until that work is completed.

Frank McAveety Lab The Convener · Glasgow Shettleston
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It might also be helpful to ask whether we are any further forward in examining good practice in and new medical evidence from France, Italy, Spain, Portugal and other European countries that have lifted these bans. We will suspend consideration of the petition as we await the outcome of the HPA's research and find out what is happening in Europe.

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