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The Hepatitis C Trust 'Follow Me' prison to community referral form
This is the referral form for The Hepatitis C Trust's 'Follow Me' programme for patients who are initiating treatment in prison. When a patient in prison is being started on treatment, but may be released during their treatment, health services can use this form to collect details which will be help The Hepatitis C Trust follow-up with the patient if they are released.England 01 Dec 2020 Tools & Templates MS Word
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The Hepatitis C Trust Outreach & Testing Van
This document summarises The Hepatitis C Trust’s Outreach and Testing Van service, which aims to increase diagnoses by reaching groups who may be at risk of hep C but who currently cannot, or do not, access testing through existing means. Given that most people in the UK today are undiagnosed, the testing van aims to overcome some of the key barriers to diagnosis.England 2011 Case study, Reports & Research PDF
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The Hepatitis C Trust: Peer-to-peer programme
This video provides an overview of The Hepatitis C Trust's peer-to-peer support work, which involves staff and volunteer peers with lived experience of hepatitis C providing support to those at risk of and living with hepatitis C, raising awareness and supporting access to testing and treatment.UK 30 Jan 2020 Training, Tools & Templates, Strategy & Planning Video
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The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on prevention, testing, diagnosis and care for sexually transmitted infections, HIV and viral hepatitis in England
This Public Health England report covers the findings of analyses of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic response on sexually transmitted infection (STI), HIV and viral hepatitis service provision and epidemiology. Despite a resurgence in hepatitis C testing and treatment initiations from June 2020, testing and treatment initiations in the summer of 2020 were considerably lower than in corresponding months in 2019. The report notes that "HCV testing through traditional venues may not have reached those in greatest need", describing this is "of particular concern".England 17 Dec 2020 Reports & Research PDF
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The lived experience of interferon-free treatments for hepatitis C: A thematic analysis
This research paper, published in the International Journal of Drug Policy, examines how interferon-free treatments for hepatitis C are being understood and experienced by patients.UK Reports & Research PDF
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The NHS Outcomes Framework 2011/12
The Government’s plans for reform across the NHS, public health and adult social care are designed to enable services to deliver improved outcomes. The cornerstone will be a framework of accountability that focuses squarely on how well services are improving outcomes for people. For the NHS, this begins with accountability at a national level focused on health outcomes. An NHS Outcomes Framework was developed to provide national level accountability for the outcomes that the NHS delivers. This document sets out the first NHS Outcomes Framework.England 2010 Reports & Research PDF
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The Sexual Health and Blood Borne Virus Framework 2011-15
Sexual health and blood borne viruses continue to be of high priority for the Scottish Government. The SexualScotland Aug 2011 Reports & Research PDF
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The Silent Pandemic: Tackling Hepatitis C with Policy Innovation
Hepatitis C may be the serious disease that most combines widespread prevalence with widespread ignorance. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), this urgent public health problem kills 350,000 people per year, and 150 million have the chronic form of the hepatitis C virus (HCV). The incidence of new infections is simply not known at the global level. Yet, HCV is entirely preventable and largely curable.UK, Rest of World 2012 Reports & Research PDF
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The Uncomfortable Truth. Hepatitis C in England: The State of the Nation
Around 160,000 people in England have chronic hepatitis C, a preventable and treatable blood-borne virus that can lead to potentially fatal cirrhosis or cancer of the liver if left untreated. However, barriers to diagnosis, effective referral and treatment mean that many of these people are undiagnosed, and an increasing number are developing potentially fatal end stage liver disease.England Oct 2013 Reports & Research PDF
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Together for Health -Liver Disease Delivery Plan
The Liver Disease Delivery Plan, launched by the Welsh Government and NHS Wales in May 2015, seeks to prevent liver disease and improve related services, and includes a focus on addressing viral hepatitis in Wales.
The Plan aims to halt the ride in liver disease and deaths; provide more support to patients; improve the quality of services' improve specialist knowledge in liver disease throughout the health service, and encourage patients to take responsibility for their health and care.UK, Wales May 2015 Other, Strategy & Planning PDF