Guidance

Hepatitis C: patient re-engagement exercise

Information for GPs about the NHS England and Public Health England initiative to support finding and treating diagnosed patients.

Documents

Hepatitis C: patient leaflet (quick read)

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Hepatitis C patient re-engagement exercise: information for GPs

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Hepatitis C patient re-engagement exercise: guidance for ODNs

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Hepatitis C re-engagement exercise: ODN to patient letter template

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Hepatitis C re-engagement exercise: ODN to GP letter template

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Details

Untreated hepatitis C infection causes cirrhosis and liver cancer. Very effective, well tolerated oral therapies are now available on the NHS.

To enable people previously diagnosed with hepatitis C to be treated for their infection, NHS England (NHSE) and Public Health England (PHE) have organised a national ‘patient re-engagement exercise’ to help find and treat people with hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection.

These documents provide further information and templates to support GPs and Operational Delivery Networks (ODNs) to deliver this important initiative.

Published 13 November 2018
Last updated 25 November 2020 + show all updates
  1. Revised guidance about the use of unscreened or non-heat treated blood transfusion or blood products in the UK prior to 1991 in Hepatitis C: information for GPs and for patients. Reformatted both pdf documents to html.

  2. Added the revised guidance for Operational Delivery Networks and 2 template letters to support the patient re-engagement exercise.

  3. Added revised version of Hepatitis C: information for GPs.

  4. First published.