Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 29 March 2018 to Question 134204, what the timetable is for Public Health England’s Operational Delivery Network Hepatitis C profile tool to be completed; and whether that tool will be made publicly available.

All national level surveillance data, including estimates of numbers of people tested, diagnosed and treated, and the burden of advanced liver disease related to hepatitis C are available in the Public Health England (PHE) annual reports: Hepatitis C in England report and Shooting Up: infections among people who inject drugs in the United Kingdom, available at the following link:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/693917/HCV_in_England_2018.pdf

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/shooting-up-infections-among-people-who-inject-drugs-in-the-uk

PHE is currently finalising a tool which has Operational Delivery Network level estimates of hepatitis C prevalence, diagnoses, treatment and severe hepatitis C virus (HCV)-related liver disease in people who inject drugs. This tool is expected to be published on gov.uk in the coming weeks.

The new tool will replace data the HCV commissioning template which contains data at Drug Action Team level:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hepatitis-c-commissioning-template-for-estimating-disease-prevalence