Hepatitis

Department of Health and Social Care written question – answered at on 6 June 2018.

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Photo of Ivan Lewis Ivan Lewis Independent, Bury South

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 29 March 2018 to Question 134204, if he will place copies of the most recent surveillance data on (a) Hepatitis C prevalence in people who inject drugs, (b) the size of that at-risk population, (c) treatment and diagnoses and (d) severe HCV-related liver disease by Operational Delivery Network in the Library.

Photo of Ivan Lewis Ivan Lewis Independent, Bury South

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 29 March 2018 to Question 134204, what the timetable is for Public Health England’s Operational Delivery Network Hepatitis C profile tool to be completed; and whether that tool will be made publicly available.

Photo of Steve Brine Steve Brine The Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Health and Social Care

All national level surveillance data, including estimates of numbers of people tested, diagnosed and treated, and the burden of advanced liver disease related to hepatitis C are available in the Public Health England (PHE) annual reports: Hepatitis C in England report and Shooting Up: infections among people who inject drugs in the United Kingdom, available at the following link:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/693917/HCV_in_England_2018.pdf

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/shooting-up-infections-among-people-who-inject-drugs-in-the-uk

PHE is currently finalising a tool which has Operational Delivery Network level estimates of hepatitis C prevalence, diagnoses, treatment and severe hepatitis C virus (HCV)-related liver disease in people who inject drugs. This tool is expected to be published on gov.uk in the coming weeks.

The new tool will replace data the HCV commissioning template which contains data at Drug Action Team level:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hepatitis-c-commissioning-template-for-estimating-disease-prevalence

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