This document from NHS Liver Care outlines the care pathway described in the Department of Health’s End of Life Care Strategy and considers how it can be applied for patients with advanced liver disease.
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Around 216,000 people in the UK are living with hepatitis C so it is important that all medical professionals have access to the latest training, information and advice on hepatitis C management. Find here links to relevant materials for clinicians, nurses, GPs, prison healthcare staff and other medical professionals.
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Getting it Right: Improving End of Life Care for People Living with Liver Disease
UK Feb 2013 Strategy & Planning PDF -
Caring for people with liver disease: a competence framework for nursing
This resource from the Royal College of Nursing sets out the professional standards required for nurses to provide quality liver care and improve outcomes.
England Feb 2013 Reports & Research PDF -
HCV Shared Practice: Nurse-led BBV testing and support at Telford Drug and Alcohol Recovery service
This document provides a case study of a Local Authority service in Shropshire, in which nurses within a drug and alcohol recovery service team are employed by the Shropshire Community Health Trust whilst working alongside the Local Authority staff to provide the health element of the service. It details the processes, outputs, outcomes and key considerations of a project aiming to improve awareness of HCV, improve uptake of HCV testing and hepatitis B vaccinations among at-risk recovery service clients, improve referral rates to secondary care and decrease 'did not attends' (DNAs).West Midlands Feb 2013 Case study MS Word -
Health Protection Report, Vol. 7 No.4
This January 2013 edition of the Health Protection Agency weekly report provides laboratory reports of hepatitis A and C cases in England and Wales, and data from the sentinel surveillance study of hepatitis testing in England, between July and September 2012.England, Wales 25 Jan 2013 Reports & Research PDF -
Hepatitis C: A projection of the healthcare and economic burden in the UK
Hepatitis C is a leading cause of chronic liver disease, end-stage cirrhosis and liver cancer, with the UK lagging behind a number of European countries in disease detection and treatment. This study sought to contribute to better understanding of the burden associated with HCV infection in the UK through estimating prevalence and number of deaths attributable to HCV infection, and by assessing the associated healthcare and societal costs.UK 2013 Reports & Research PDF -
Hep C: You Need to Know
This guide provides information on hepatitis c, including the symptoms, testing, treatment and available support in the UK.UK 2013 Other PDF -
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 ribavirinThis 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.East Midlands Jan 2013 Case study MS Word
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NICE public health guidance 43: Hepatitis B and C - ways to promote and offer testing to people at increased risk of infection
This guidance for commissioners and providers of public services aims to ensure more people at increased risk of hepatitis B and C infection are tested. The recommendations cover awareness-raising; testing; contact tracing; providing and auditing neonatal hepatitis B vaccination; commissioning hepatitis B and C testing and treatment services; and laboratory services for hepatitis B and C testing. This guidance, produced in 2012, was last modified in March 2013.UK Dec 2012 Tools & Templates, Strategy & Planning PDF -
Hepatitis C Testing and Treatment in Wirral. Increasing Treatment Places: A Practical Solution
The following report describes the practical steps taken by the local partnership in Wirral in the wake of the Department of Health’s 2002 publication of the ‘Hepatitis C Strategy for England: Getting Ahead of the Curve’, aimed at systematically increasing hepatitis C awareness and testing in Wirral in such a way as to increase demand for treatment places. In doing so, the partnership hoped to tangibly reduce local hepatitis C prevalence and the associated burden of treatment in the longer term.North West Oct 2012 Reports & Research PDF -
Increasing hepatitis B and C testing in the prison setting: The use of new diagnostics at HMP Manchester
Hepatitis B and C pose a major challenge to public health in the UK. Up to half a million people have one or both of these viruses, which can cause liver failure and cancer, yet only a minority have been diagnosed. Prevalence is particularly high in the prison population; evenNorth West Sep 2012 Case study, Reports & Research, Strategy & Planning PDF