Resources

The Hepatitis C Trust, following an inquiry held with the cross-party Scottish Hepatitis C Parliamentary Champions group, published a report, 'Eliminating Hepatitis C in Scotland: A Call to Action'. The report looks in detail at Scotland's approach to hepatitis C, focusing on the need for an elimination strategy, awareness, prevention, testing & diagnosis, linkage to care, access to treatment and funding. The report also features a series of recommendations for action to boost Scotland's progress towards achieving elimination.

During 2017, the Hepatitis C Coalition embarked on a series of meetings with several of the 22 Operational Delivery Networks (ODNs) to assess how ODNs perceive their work, what about the system is working and what challenges there are to overcome. This report provides an overview of the findings of these discussions.

This resource, produced by Public Health England, provides an annual update on infections among people who inject drugs (PWIDs) in the UK. The report reveals that hepatitis C remains the most common blood-borne infection among PWIDs, and that approximately half (48%) of hepatitis C infections among PWIDs remain undiagnosed. Of those who were unaware of their infection, 22% reported that they had never been tested, and of those unaware but tested, 44% reported that their last test had been more than two years earlier.

This report provides a summary of the Lancashire & South Cumbria ODN Workshop held by HCV Action, in partnership with the ODN, in Preston on 11th October 2017. The workshop brought together a range of stakeholders working across the hepatitis C pathway in the Lancashire & South Cumbria ODN region, with the aim of discussing some of the barriers faced by the ODN, as well as providing a forum in which to develop solutions to some of these challenges. The report includes summaries of the day's talks and group discussion, as well as suggested next steps to be taken following the event.