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[…] up the momentum, heard delegates at LJWG’s Three years to go to elimination conference. ‘We now have three years to achieve our shared goal of elimination of hepatitis C as a public health issue in London,’ London Joint Working Group (LJWG) co-chair Dr Suman Verma told LJWG’s 2022 conference. Despite the challenges of COVID, […]

WDP has announced that it has been shortlisted for the Performance Recovery Award at this year’s HSJ Awards, along with its partners in the Hepatitis C Drug Treatment Services (DTS) Provider Forum. The HSJ Awards recognise the outstanding contributions made to healthcare across the UK and showcase these achievements on a national platform. The […]

On World Hepatitis Day, We Are With You in Lanarkshire says more needs to be done to meet the UK’s target of eliminating the virus by 2025.

England could be the first country to eliminate hepatitis C, according to plans announced by the NHS. The health service has called on the pharmaceutical industry to work with it to provide ‘best value for money for treatments’ to help it eliminate the virus at ‘least five years earlier’ than the World Health Organization’s […]

People aged over 18 and living in England can now order a free confidential home test for hepatitis C via the NHS. The self-sample testing process involves taking a few drops of blood from the finger. The World Health Organization’s (WHO) global hep C elimination target is to reduce new infections by 90 per […]

NHS England is investing £4.2m to buy 25 FibroScan machines to be used in settings and facilities where there are potential hepatitis C patients, including drug and alcohol services, clinical outreach vans and special testing events at GP practices.  NHS England is investing £4.2m to buy 25 FibroScan machines (pic wiki Commons) The FibroScans […]

A pilot project offering hepatitis C testing in pharmacies with needle exchange facilities has been hailed a success, with more than 50 per cent of those tested in the four-month scheme having hepatitis C antibodies. Almost 80 per cent of those who engaged with specialist services, meanwhile, had hep C viral particles in their […]

The Humankind charity has launched a new national Hepatitis C Action Plan to mark World Hepatitis Day.

[…] 90 overall in England and Wales. Within London, however, this rises to one in 20. People who inject crack cocaine were more likely to be infected with hepatitis C, as were people who injected into their groin, says the report. Crack cocaine users can inject several times a day at different sites, increasing the […]

www.drinkanddrugsnews.com ISSN 1755-b23b January 2014 HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL OUR READERS NEWS FOCUS How the Hepatitis C Trust’s testing van is increasing access to services p6 MAKE IT HAPPEN! He 2014 national service user involvement conference – why you should be there p16 PROFILE Analytical chemist Dr John Ramsey on the challenge of […]

www.drinkanddrugsnews.com ISSN 1755-b23b January 2014 HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL OUR READERS NEWS FOCUS How the Hepatitis C Trust’s testing van is increasing access to services p6 MAKE IT HAPPEN! He 2014 national service user involvement conference – why you should be there p16 PROFILE Analytical chemist Dr John Ramsey on the challenge of […]

WDP and Gilead Sciences have formally partnered for a second time to support sector-wide efforts to eliminate hepatitis C virus (HCV) in drug and alcohol services by the end of 2023. As part of this renewed partnership with Gilead, WDP has recruited a dedicated hepatitis C coordinator to help its services achieve this 2023 […]

Deaths from hepatitis C-related end-stage liver disease fell by 11 per cent last year compared to 2016, according to new figures from Public Health England (PHE). The fall, which comes after a decade of continuous increases, is ‘most likely’ due to the growing use of new antiviral medications available on the NHS, says PHE. […]

The prevalence of chronic hepatitis C in England was just over 80,000 in 2020, according to the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), down from almost 130,000 in 2015 – a fall of nearly 40 per cent. The figures show that there has been ‘considerable progress’ towards the target of eliminating hep C as a […]

[…] WHERE NEXT? WHERE NEXT? From FDAP in association with WIRED Your fortnightly magazine |jobs|news|views|research 22 May 2006 OTHER THERAPIES Breaking down barriers with acupuncture POSITIVE SERVICES Dynamic Hepatitis C networks in Bristol CLIENT TROUBLE Questions and answers from the frontline www.drinkanddrugs.net 22 May 2006 News Round-up Alcohol indicators show problems worsening in North West […]

[…] executive Mark Weeding. News |Round-up www.drinkanddrugs.net 14 January 2008 | drinkanddrugsnews| 5 Hep C infections rise by 10 per cent The number of newly diagnosed cases of hepatitis C infection in England rose by 10 per cent from 2005 to 2006, according to new figures from the Health Protection Agency (HPA). According to Hepatitis […]

[…] vulnerable to any future outbreak.’ The guidance has been welcomed by a range of bodies including the NTA and the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs’ hepatitis C prevention working group. ‘This guidance highlights the important role that needle and syringe programmes play, both as a way of opening the door to drug […]

With hepatitis C still massively under-prioritised, DDN hears how The Hepatitis C Trust’s testing van is taking services out on the road. ‘It probably adds up to a few months every year,’ says Hepatitis C Trust outreach officer Jim Conneely of the time he spends travelling the country in the trust’s testing van. ‘It’s exhausting […]

[…] this cohort in the world. Coordinated by Public Health England (PHE), the survey consists of a self-completed questionnaire and biological sample that is anonymously tested for HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C to monitor trends in blood-borne viruses (BBVs) and behaviours that impact transmission, such as needle sharing, testing and treatment uptake. No identifiable […]

[…] Best Pharmaceutical Partnership with the NHS Award, and Most Impactful Project Addressing Health Inequalities Award at this year’s HSJ Partnership Awards, along with its partners in the Hepatitis C Drug Treatment Services (DTS) Provider Forum. The HSJ Partnership Awards recognise the outstanding contributions made to healthcare across the UK and showcase these achievements on […]

Beyond a script  Actively bringing patients closer to services could mean a paradigm shift for hepatitis C treatment, says Dr Steve Brinksman Good quality shared care has always meant a lot more than just the provision of a prescription for opioid substitution treatment (OST). To help facilitate this our practice has developed a template […]

Deaths from hepatitis C related liver disease fell by 16 per cent between 2015 and 2017, from 380 to 319, according to the latest figures from Public Health England (PHE). While this puts England ahead of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) target of reducing deaths by 10 per cent by 2020, challenges still remain, […]

  Thank you for taking the time to answer questions about your work in relation to hepatitis C. Your answers will be anonymised and will be aggregated to inform activities as part of the I’m Worth… hepatitis C patient empowerment campaign. The I’m Worth… campaign aims to address the stigma that many people with […]

[…] see how different organisations have come together on this issue despite the pandemic,’ London mayor Sadiq Khan told the London Joint Working Group on Substance Use and Hepatitis C’s (LJWG) annual conference – an online event this year. Just one example had been the ‘enormously successful initiative to offer blood-borne virus testing to homeless […]

The Hepatitis C Trust has developed projects nationally whereby peers use their lived experience of injecting drug use and hepatitis C, to provide education and training to service users and staff in drug and alcohol, hostel and homeless services, increasing hepatitis C awareness, access to testing and referral to treatment, for people living with […]

[…] hand over dirty needles, if they are given clean ones on their release. Two thirds of drug users taken into custody are thought to be infected with hepatitis C or HIV. Edinburgh Evening News, 14 January Far m weed A Shropshire farmer ‘couldn’t believe it’ when police found a sophisticated drugs factory in his […]

[…] of the best protections against drug-related harm. Drug injectors are vulnerable to a wide range of viral and bacterial infections, which often lead to illness and death. Hepatitis C, which can cause liver disease, poses the biggest risk, and is much more prevalent in England than HIV. Around 45 per cent of injecting drug […]

[…] hand over dirty needles, if they are given clean ones on their release. Two thirds of drug users taken into custody are thought to be infected with hepatitis C or HIV. Edinburgh Evening News, 14 January Far m weed A Shropshire farmer ‘couldn’t believe it’ when police found a sophisticated drugs factory in his […]

England will see 1,650 annual cases of hepatitis C-related end-stage liver disease and cancer by 2035 if the current low levels of treatment are maintained, according to Public Health England (PHE). Although around 160,000 people are infected with hepatitis C in England, just 3 per cent access treatment each year. However, the burden of healthcare costs associated with untreated hep C means that increasing this […]

Forward Leeds’ BBV nurse Karen Towning (centre) with recovery coordinators Mel Senior (left) and Louise Maidens. A new peer-led group has been launched in Leeds to support people with hepatitis C. Staff from Forward Leeds are aiming to help clients gain support from each other and have the chance to talk to others in similar situations. […]

[…] secretary from his ACMD post. Report available at www.crimeandjustice.org.uk Two fifths of IDUs infected with hep C Around two fifths of injecting drug users are infected with hepatitis C and one in 73 with HIV, according to a new report from the Health Protection Agency (HPA). Rates of HIV transmission among IDUs have increased, […]

In January the London Joint Working Group on Substance Use and Hepatitis C (LJWG) launched a new report on the case for a peer-based needle exchange in London – designed by, and run by, the people who know how these services can work best (see news, page 5). Peers have lived experience of injecting […]

[…] (NSP) are a life-changing – and even life-saving – intervention. Being able to access clean injecting equipment, advice, and harm reduction interventions massively reduces people’s vulnerability to hepatitis C, HIV, bacterial infections and a range of other harms.  While we know that NSPs are an effective way to reduce harm to people who inject […]

Around half of people living with hepatitis C infections are unaware that they have the virus, according to a new Public Health England (PHE) report. Nearly 14,000 hepatitis C infections were diagnosed in the UK last year, around 90 per cent of which were acquired through injecting drug use, says Shooting up: infections among […]

Around half of people living with hepatitis C infections are unaware that they have the virus, according to a new Public Health England (PHE) report. Nearly 14,000 hepatitis C infections were diagnosed in the UK last year, around 90 per cent of which were acquired through injecting drug use, says Shooting up: infections among people […]

Up to two thirds of the estimated 143,000 people in the UK living with a chronic hepatitis C infection may be unaware they have it, according to the latest figures from Public Health England (PHE). That equates to 95,000 people who could otherwise be getting life-saving treatment, the agency stresses. The hep C virus […]

NHS Tayside in Scotland has become the first region in the world to effectively eliminate hepatitis C, with 90 per cent of patients diagnosed and 80 per cent of infected cases treated by the end of last year. Prof John Dillon: The idea of treatment as prevention – the project began in a single needle […]

NHS Substance Misuse Providers Association talk about eliminating Hepatitis C

[…] naloxone.’ Back to top Peers are a group leading the fight against hep C, hears DDN. ‘I love what I do,’ Paul Huggett, peer coordinator for the Hepatitis C Trust, told the Positive about being positive session at HRI’s Constellations harm reduction festival. ‘When I give someone the diagnosis that they’re positive but then […]

[…] machines and home deliveries. GIG sought to explore the respondents’ views and experiences on safer injecting information and BBVs given the rising numbers of IDUs infected with Hepatitis C (HCV). The findings suggest there is a lack of information regarding safe injecting practice and injecting techniques. Only four people said they had ever been […]

[…] people’s views on drugswas attended by young people who had taken part in Drugsline’s education programme. Hep talk Westminster Drug Project’s Harrow Road service is holding a hepatitis C awareness raising event on 23 May. One in 12 people worldwide are living with viral hepatitis B or C – around 500 million – the […]

[…] in British jails, and calling for a national committee to address the issue (DDN, February, page 4). Meanwhile, new guidance on the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of hepatitis C in prisons has been issued by the Hepatitis C Trust. The document aims to provide commissioners and staff with advice on testing and treatment that […]

[…] treatment and save public money, hence their adoption in 86 countries around the world and their inclusion in the UK Drug strategy 2010. The impact on viral hepatitis, however, has been much more modest – around half of all people who inject drugs in the UK may be infected with hepatitis C, with little […]

[…] machines and home deliveries. GIG sought to explore the respondents’ views and experiences on safer injecting information and BBVs given the rising numbers of IDUs infected with Hepatitis C (HCV). The findings suggest there is a lack of information regarding safe injecting practice and injecting techniques. Only four people said they had ever been […]

[…] users had to lie at the heart of this, he said. The Health Protection Agency’s Shooting Upreport highlighted that half of drug users in the UK had hepatitis C. Dangerous levels of ignorance had to be tackled, according to Mr Morris. Many drug users had a casual attitude to ‘lending’ needles, not realising that […]

[…] is movement, but it’s way too slow and coverage is still very, very low – in most countries, not enough to have an impact on HIV or hepatitis C transmission.’ 10 May 2010 www.drinkanddrugsnews.com OVERCOMING THE ODDSOVERCOMING THE ODDS Your fortnightly magazine | jobs | news | views | research Special issue DDN reports […]

[…] Home Office, April 2005. National Offender Management Ser vice (NOMS) Drug Strategy – Strategy for management of drug using offenders. Home Office (NOMS), January 2005. Guidance for hepatitis A & B vaccination of drug users. – Guidance for primar y care workers on hepatitis vaccination. RCGP,November 2004. Guidance for working with cocaine & crack […]

The Hepatitis C Trust are the national UK charity for hepatitis C and has been operating since 2001.  They are a patient-led and patient-run organisation and almost all of the Board, staff and volunteers either have hepatitis C or have had it and have cleared it after treatment. www.hepctrust.org.uk/ logo C

[…] – Childcare vouchers – Therapy allowance – Career development – Up to 30 days annual leave View our current vacancies at www.forwardtrust.org.uk/work-for-us/ PASSIONATE PEER WORKERS WANTED The Hepatitis C Trust is expanding its network of peer workers across the country and wibb be booking oto recruit up to 20 new staff to join its […]

Since mid-2017 the UK has experienced a shortage of hepatitis B vaccine due to global manufacturing issues. In response to the shortage, Public Health England (PHE) developed temporary recommendations on use of hepatitis B vaccine. Vaccine supplies are now improving and more vaccine is becoming available during 2018. Supplies will remain constrained, however, due to […]

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Hepatitis C represents a major public health challenge but patients now have the opportunity to be completely free of the virus through a short course of treatment. This Hepatitis C and Health guide will help you to recognise stages and symptoms and offer people the targeted help they need. Read it online as […]

‘Significantly greater’ numbers of people need to be tested, diagnosed and treated in order to eliminate hepatitis C, according to a report from the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Liver Health. England needs to agree on a national elimination strategy if it is to make the most of a ‘once in a generation’ […]

[…] our mission of helping people change the direction of their lives, grow as individuals, and live life to its full potential. We have an exciting opportunity for a  Hepatitis C Specialist Intervention Worker. You will actively promote  and undertake the delivery of effective interventions for hepatitis C across the site using  a whole system approach. […]

[…] organs for donation – a situation that has remained constant for the past ten years. The key risk factors for liver disease are excessive drinking, infection with hepatitis B or C, and obesity. More than 40 per cent of all adult liver transplants throughout the UK, Europe and the US are conducted for end […]

[…] or amphetamine-like substances such as mephedrone, however, almost tripled in the decade to 2012, with this using population less likely to have been tested for HIV or hepatitis C and more likely to report sharing. While heroin remains the most commonly injected drug – either on its own or in combination with crack – […]

[…] those who have gone on to develop a problem. Education campaigns should be realistic he said, and make people snorting cocaine aware of the risks of contracting hepatitis C and HIV from traces of blood on shared equipment, such as rolled- up banknotes, straws, razors and mirrors.He called for services to respond specifically to […]

[…] or amphetamine-like substances such as mephedrone, however, almost tripled in the decade to 2012, with this using population less likely to have been tested for HIV or hepatitis C and more likely to report sharing.  While heroin remains the most commonly injected drug – either on its own or in combination with crack – changes in […]

[…] partnership have carried us through. Tracey Kemp, Rebecca John, Helen Hampton, Debbie Moores, William McCully, Simon Morton and Shayon Salehi on how the future looks promising for hepatitis C testing in drug treatment settings. By the start of 2020, the vital role that drug treatment services (DTS) across England were having in testing and […]