This summary reports features key points from the contributions at the 26th March 2021 HCV Action webinar looking at hepatitis C service recovery in England. Speakers at the webinar included: Prof Graham Foster, National Clinical Lead for ODNs, NHS England; Mark Gillyon-Powell, Head of Programme – HCV Elimination, NHS England/NHS Improvement; Stacey Smith, Director of Nursing, Humankind; Colin Lawton, Northern Regional Prison Lead, The Hepatitis C Trust; and Julia Sheehan, Women’s Prisons Peer Coordinator, The Hepatitis C Trust.
HCV Action Shared Practice Case Study, Nottingham: Treatment of HCV infected patients attending a primary care shared care substance misuse clinic with pegylated interferon and ribavirin
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This document provides a case study of a nurse-led secondary care HCV treatment clinic which was set up in 2005 within a primary care drug treatment clinic in order to improve access to treatment for a group of disadvantaged HCV patients. It details the programme's key processes, outputs, outcomes and learning points for the future.
