Hepatitis: Screening
(asked on 22nd February 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the potential role of antenatal screening in eliminating Hepatitis C.
Answered by
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
This question was answered on 25th February 2022
The United Kingdom National Screening Committee will be reviewing the evidence on screening pregnant women for hepatitis C in the next year. The review will help to understand whether antenatal screening should form part of the overall strategy to meet the World Health Organization’s target of hepatitis C elimination by 2030.