Hepatitis
(asked on 23rd April 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what are the latest estimates from the Operational Delivery Networks, produced by NHS England, of the total number of people infected with Hepatitis C in England, broken down by disease state: (1) mild, (2) moderate, (3) cirrhotic, and (4) end stage.
NHS England has advised that the information on infection rates and disease state is not available in the format requested. Most recent estimates suggest that around 160,000 people in England are living with chronic hepatitis C infection.
Over the past three years Operational Delivery Networks (ODNs) have delivered the mber of hepatitis C treatments as shown in the following table.
ODN |
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| 2015/16 | 2016/17 | 2017/18 |
North East and Cumbria | 250 | 395 | 620 |
Greater Manchester and Eastern Cheshire | 521 | 687 | 845 |
Cheshire and Merseyside | 252 | 347 | 585 |
South Yorkshire | 212 | 340 | 438 |
Humberside and North Yorkshire | 112 | 377 | 329 |
West Yorkshire | 328 | 445 | 584 |
Lancashire and South Cumbria | 134 | 330 | 343 |
Leicester | 133 | 255 | 265 |
Birmingham | 518 | 748 | 742 |
Nottingham | 268 | 383 | 470 |
Eastern Hepatitis Network | 333 | 586 | 706 |
West London | 554 | 562 | 757 |
North Central London Viral Hepatitis Network | 421 | 730 | 865 |
Barts | 299 | 494 | 667 |
South Thames Hepatitis Network | 557 | 870 | 1,068 |
Surrey Hepatitis Services | 91 | 154 | 174 |
Sussex Hepatology Network | 165 | 241 | 274 |
Thames Valley | 221 | 347 | 425 |
Wessex | 270 | 341 | 412 |
Bristol and Severn | 203 | 326 | 419 |
South West Peninsula | 189 | 328 | 394 |
Kent Network via Kings | - | 154 | 175 |
Note:
Kent Network was not active in 2015/16 hence no treatments were recorded.