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 merits of routine antenatal screening for Hepatitis C.
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.