According to the Official government response (2015), the Scottish Government established a Short-Life Working Group, involving Health Protection Scotland and the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service, to implement the recommendation for HCV testing for pre-1991 transfusion recipients. According to gov.scot (2016), a progress report from this working group, detailing its work on the Penrose Inquiry recommendation regarding Hepatitis C infection from NHS treatment, was published on September 2, 2016. According to an FOI release from May 6, 2021, it referenced the implementation of a second recommendation from this working group; no further specific updates on the pre-1991 testing programme have been identified since 2021.