Building on the 2021 Interim guidance, this second version and update, incorporates the lessons and feedback from the hepatitis pilots that successfully demonstrated the feasibility of measuring hepatitis B and C impact targets to demonstrate elimination, whilst highlighting challenges caused by high disease burden in some countries, as well as delays in reaching mortality targets due to the long natural history of disease progression to liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma.
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Commissioner
NHS England, CCGs and local authorities are all responsible for commissioning different parts of hepatitis C testing, treatment and care. Find here tools, templates and other relevant documents to assist commissioners with their responsibilities to ensure hepatitis C patients are diagnosed and receive high quality care.
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Guidance for country validation of viral hepatitis elimination and path to elimination
UK, Rest of World 05 Oct 2023 Reports & Research, Strategy & Planning PDF -
National Hepatitis C ODN Event 2023 - Slides
On September 12th 2023, HCV Action held our latest annual National ODN Stakeholder Event. This event is HCV Action’s annual gathering of ODN representatives and the wider hepatitis C professional community, and is intended to be an opportunity to discuss progress towards elimination, showcase best practice and successful projects, and identify solutions to common challenges in reaching elimination.UK, England Tools & Templates PDF -
Prevention, diagnosis and treatment of blood borne viruses in Wales: Hepatitis B, hepatitis C and HIV - Annual report 2023
This report provides information on the epidemiology, prevention and control of hepatitis B, hepatitis C and HIV in Wales to end of 2022. The report is aimed at policy makers, health service clinicians and planners, commissioners, criminal justice, third sector agencies and academia.Wales 28 Jul 2023 Reports & Research PDF -
Webinar: Engaging socially excluded groups - lessons from hepatitis C
On 13th July 2023, HCV Action held a webinar to explore how lessons from the hepatitis C elimination programme and models used to deliver HCV-related healthcare can be applied to other efforts to engage socially excluded (or 'inclusion health') groups in healthcare. Thank you to our speakers: Leila Reid (The Hepatitis C Trust) Julia Sheehan (The Hepatitis C Trust) Mark Gillyon-Powell (Head of Programme - HCV Elimination, NHS England) Dr Binta Sultan (Consultant Physician in Inclusion Health, University College London Hospital)UK 21 Jul 2023 Other Video -
Driving Elimination through HCV Case Finding in Primary Care
On 12th September 2022, Merck Sharp & Dohme (MSD) convened a roundtable bringing together some of the country’s leading healthcare professionals. The purpose of the roundtable was to provide a forum to discuss the ways in which HCV case finding could be improved and increase the uptake and use of the Patient Search Identification (PSI) software. The PSI software is a case-finding tool which searches for coded HCV risk factors in patient records in primary care settings to identify potentially at-risk patients that should be reviewed and, if appropriate, tested.England 18 Jul 2023 Reports & Research, Strategy & Planning PDF -
Inclusion Health webinar - July 2023 - Slides
On 13th July 2023, HCV Action held a webinar to explore how lessons from the hepatitis C elimination programme and models used to deliver HCV-related healthcare can be applied to other efforts to engage socially excluded (or 'inclusion health') groups in healthcare. Thank you to our speakers: Leila Reid (The Hepatitis C Trust) Julia Sheehan (The Hepatitis C Trust) Mark Gillyon-Powell (Head of Programme - HCV Elimination, NHS England) Dr Binta Sultan (Consultant Physician in Inclusion Health, University College London Hospital)UK 13 Jul 2023 Other PDF -
Good practice case study: Delivering a High-Intensity Test and Treat initiative in Turning Point drug services
Hepatitis C Trust peers, ODN nurses, and Turning Point drug service staff worked together to conduct a High-Intensity Test and Treat (HITT) project in Oxfordshire during the summer of 2021. Carried out across four different Turning Point services in Oxfordshire, resources and data were shared between the ODN and the drug services to identify a list of people to follow up with and offer a test.UK, England, South East 19 May 2023 Case study PDF -
WHO: New recommendation on hepatitis C virus testing and treatment for people at ongoing risk of infection
In 2022, the World Health Organization published the Consolidated guidelines on HIV, viral hepatitis and STI prevention, diagnosis, treatment and care for key populations. These guidelines outline a public health response to HIV, viral hepatitis and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) for 5 key populations (men who have sex with men, sex workers, people in prisons and other closed settings, people who inject drugs and trans and gender diverse people).UK, Rest of World 14 Apr 2023 Reports & Research, Tools & Templates, Strategy & Planning PDF -
Infected Blood Inquiry: Second Interim Report
This second interim report from the Infected Blood Inquiry recommends the immediate establishment of a single UK-wide compensation scheme for those infected and affected as part of the infected blood scandal. The scandal saw tens of thousands of people receive contaminated blood through the NHS between the late 1970s and early 1990s, which led to many contracting hepatitis C, hepatitis B, HIV and other diseases.UK 11 Apr 2023 Reports & Research PDF -
Taking the initiative: how England is eliminating hepatitis C
This report explores the unprecedented hepatitis C elimination programme developed since 2019 between NHS England, pharmaceutical industry providers, voluntary sector bodies and other partners, and profiles ‘elimination initiatives’ that have been developed in different parts of the country and wider health and care system as a result.England 21 Feb 2023 Reports & Research PDF