Hepatitis and HIV/AIDS: Accident and Emergency Departments
Commons · Question 86810 · Tabled 30 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 11 Nov 2025
Question
Asked by Andrew Snowden
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
Answered by Ashley Dalton, 11 Nov 2025
A 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...