The Cocoon project, set up in Tayside, Scotland seeks to address the high rate of drug-related deaths in the area.
The project delivers point-of-care diagnosis of HCV in needle exchange sites, while also integrating services which typically require travel to alternate NHS sites to reduce the burden of multiple visits and different providers. The result is a ‘one-stop’ holistic care bundle which seeks to address the inequity of access experienced by PWUD by increasing their engagement through services tailored to their specific needs.
Webinar: Mitigating the impact of COVID-19 on hepatitis C testing
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This is a recording of a webinar focusing on how services can mitigate the impact of COVID-19 on hepatitis C testing and find alternative ways to test people.
The first part of the webinar consisted of three presentations:
1/ Overview of testing, before and after COVID-19 - Helen Hampton, Lead Clinical Nurse for Blood Borne Virus, We Are With You
2/ Outreach testing during the COVID-19 lockdown - Julian Surey, Find and Treat Team
3/ Postal testing or self-testing - Tracey Kemp, National Hepatitis C Strategy Lead, Change Grow Live
After a Q&A with the speakers, the audience went into breakout groups to discuss these types of testing in more detail. After this the leaders of each group fed back and summarised their group's discussion.
