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One Recovery Bucks BBV Pathway
This best practice resource details the One Recovery Bucks blood borne virus pathway implemented in 2016. The pathway, involving partnership working with the local NHS Trust is much simpler than the previous pathway and is all completed ‘in-house’ at the One Recovery Bucks community drug and alcohol service. The new pathway has resulted in an increase in those who test positive advancing to access treatment from 18% to over 90%.UK 10 Jan 2020 Tools & Templates PDF -
Good practice case study: One Recovery Bucks BBV Pathway
This good practice case study focuses on the One Recovery Bucks drugs service BBV pathway. Implementation of the pathway has seen the proportion of patients who test positive for hepatitis C going on to access treatment increase from 18% to over 90%.UK 10 Jan 2020 Case study PDF -
Staying Alive in Scotland: Strategies to Prevent Drug Deaths
This updated toolkit, a partnership between the Scottish Government and Scottish Drugs Forum, updates the original report produced three years ago. The resource notes that DAA treatments for hepatitis C provide an opportunity to prevent drug-related deaths, but that opportunities to test for hepatitis C are being missed.Scotland 20 Dec 2019 Reports & Research PDF -
Shooting Up: Infections among people who inject drugs in the UK, 2018
This December 2019 update to the Shooting Up: Infections among people who inject drugs in the UK, produced by Public Health England, provides updated data to the end of 2018. The report says that there is early evidence for a reduction in chronic hepatitis C prevalence among injecting drug users, but that rates of new infection are unchanged, including amongst individuals who have recently started injecting.UK 20 Dec 2019 Reports & Research PDF -
World Hepatitis Day 2019: Global Summary Report
The World Hepatitis Alliance has produced a report summarising activity for World Hepatitis Day 2019, including a global map of activity and regional reports.Rest of World 19 Dec 2019 Reports & Research PDF -
HCV Action good practice roadshow, South East prisons: Presentations
Presentations from speakers at the HCV Action good practice roadshow held in Woking on November 28th 2019 focusing on best practice in testing and treating people with hepatitis C in prisons. Presentations covered good practice from around England as well as a national overview on the hepatitis C elimination deal from the National Lead for Public Health in secure and detained settings.UK, South East 06 Dec 2019 Training, Reports & Research, Strategy & Planning PDF -
Summary report: Hepatitis C good practice prisons roadshow, South East England - December 2019
This report provides a summary of the good practice hepatitis C roadshow held by HCV Action and NHS England Health and Justice on 28th December 2019. The report includes summaries of the presentations and workshops held on the day and attendees' reflections and pledges for action.South East Reports & Research, Strategy & Planning PDF -
Summary report: Hepatitis C good practice roadshow, West London - September 2019
This report provides a summary of the good practice hepatitis C roadshow held by HCV Action and Public Health England with the West London ODN on 27th September 2019. The report includes summaries of the workshops held on the day and attendees' reflections and pledges for action.UK, England, Greater London 22 Oct 2019 Training, Reports & Research PDF -
HCV Action and Public Health England hepatitis C good practice roadshow, West London: Presentations
On 27th September 2019, HCV Action and Public Health England (PHE) staged a hepatitis C good practice roadshow with the West London ODN. The event featured presentations on progress in tackling hepatitis C, nationally and locally, and examples of best practice in the prevention, diagnosis, testing and treatment of hepatitis C.UK, England, Greater London 07 Oct 2019 Training, Strategy & Planning PDF