Hepatitis

Department of Health and Social Care written question – answered at on 16 April 2018.

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Photo of Diana R. Johnson Diana R. Johnson Labour, Kingston upon Hull North

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of people with (a) Stage 1 Hepatitis C and (b) with Stage 1 Hepatitis C and HIV have registered with the England Infected Blood Support Scheme; and how many and what proportion of people in each of those groups were successful in their application.

Photo of Diana R. Johnson Diana R. Johnson Labour, Kingston upon Hull North

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people (a) with Stage 1 Hepatitis C, (b) Stage 2 Hepatitis C, (c) Stage 1 Hepatitis C and HIV, (d) Stage 2 Hepatitis C and HIV, (e) HIV and (f) the bereaved former partners of those affected by these viruses are registered with the England Infected Blood Support Scheme.

Photo of Jackie Doyle-Price Jackie Doyle-Price The Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Health and Social Care

All beneficiaries registered with the five former infected blood payments schemes were written to and asked to give their consent for their details to be passed to the new administrator NHS Business Services Authority.

The numbers of beneficiaries currently registered with the England Infected Blood Support Scheme administered by the NHS Business Services Authority are as follows, this includes all of those who gave consent to their details being transferred and any new, successful applicants:

Beneficiary group

Numbers registered with NHS Business Services Authority as of 4 April 2018 (this includes all new successful registrants)

Hepatitis C - Stage 1

1,399

Hepatitis C - Stage 1 and HIV

113

Hepatitis C - Stage 2

644

Hepatitis C - Stage 2 and HIV

63

HIV

311

Bereaved former partners

189

We have interpreted the question about applications to be about new applications to the support schemes. Since 1 November 2017, 24 new registrant applications have been approved.

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