Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 86810
Hepititis and HIV Infection: Accident and Emergency Departments
Tabled: 30 October 2025
Answered: 11 November 2025
Question
Mr Andrew Snowden
Conservative — Fylde
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the NHS emergency department opt-out testing programme on early diagnosis rates for (a) HIV, (b) hepatitis B and (c) hepatitis C.
Answer
Ashley DaltonA public health evaluation of the emergency department blood-borne virus opt-out testing programme for the first 34 sites taking part showed that there were 3,667 new diagnoses of hepatitis B, 831 of hepatitis C, and 719 of HIV between April 2022 and Dece...
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