Hepatitis
(asked on 3rd November 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people in each age group were diagnosed with hepatitis C in each of the last five years.
Public Health England receives laboratory reports of hepatitis C cases from England and Wales and data is presented by age group in the table below.
Laboratory reports of hepatitis C by age group, England and Wales, 2010 to 2014
Year | 2010 (i) | 2011 (ii) | 2012 (iii) | 2013 (iv) | 2014 (v) |
Age group (years) | |||||
| 26 | 41 | 21 | 27 | 17 |
1-4 | 10 | 21 | 23 | 15 | 13 |
5-9 | 6 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 10 |
10-14 | 5 | 13 | 12 | 13 | 20 |
15-24 | 463 | 581 | 567 | 559 | 550 |
25-34 | 2,166 | 2,640 | 2,957 | 3,037 | 2,849 |
35-44 | 2,510 | 3,123 | 3,340 | 3,407 | 3,310 |
45-54 | 1,791 | 2,329 | 2,627 | 2,721 | 2,918 |
55-64 | 778 | 1,123 | 1,203 | 1,293 | 1,559 |
>=65 | 316 | 423 | 503 | 514 | 657 |
NK | 76 | 79 | 93 | 99 | 94 |
Total | 8,147 | 10,382 | 11,353 | 11,692 | 11,997 |
Across the UK, more individuals are being tested for hepatitis C and over the last 5 years particular improvements have been seen in primary care where surveillance indicates that testing has risen by 21% in England (vi).
Citations
(i) Health Protection Report Vol 5. No. 29 22 July 2011
(ii) Health Protection Report Vol 6. No. 30 27 July 2012
(iii) Health Protection Report Vol.7 No. 30 26 July 2013
(iv) Health Protection Report Vol 98 No. 29 25 July 2014
(v) Health Protection Report Vol 9 No. 26 24 July 2015
(vi) Hepatitis C in the UK; 2015 report. Public Health England