A joint effort by HCV Action and The Hepatitis C Trust, this report sets out to understand what the NHS and frontline services who work with people at risk of hepatitis C are seeing in relation to reinfection, what is already being done, and what more we might put in place locally and nationally to address this.
Good practice case study: Ipswich NHS Trust prison in-reach
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In August 2015, Ipswich NHS Trust launched an in-reach treatment service in four prisons, seeking to increase the number of inmates receiving treatment for hepatitis C. Despite a number of challenges, clear pathways have been established for engaging patients into treatment, which has resulted in a substantial increase in the number of prisoners being treated for the virus.
