Hepatitis: Bristol West

(asked on 18th November 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people in Bristol West constituency (a) he estimates have undiagnosed and (b) have diagnosed hepatitis C; and how many people who have been so diagnosed have access to the latest treatments for hepatitis C.


This question was answered on 28th November 2016

There is no routine national notification system in place to capture cases diagnosed with current hepatitis C infection. However, there are a number of systems and programmes in place that provide robust information on samples of the population which allow us to generate estimates at both a national and local level.

Estimates of the number of people with undiagnosed hepatitis C are available at local authority level. The estimated number of people in the city of Bristol with current undiagnosed hepatitis C infection is approximately 750.

Information on the number of people diagnosed with hepatitis C who have access to the latest treatment is not held centrally.

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