HIV Infection: Health Services
(asked on 17th March 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will provide a breakdown of the number of people with HIV are not retained in care by (a) NHS region, (b) Integrated Care System, (c) NHS Trust, and (d) local authority.
This information is not held in the format requested.
The number of people not retained in care is included in the HIV Action Plan monitoring and evaluation framework published on 1 December 2022 which is available at the following link:
The following table shows the number of people not attending care for at least 15 months in 2019 to 2021.
2019 | 2020 | 2021 | |
Number of people not attending care for at least 15 months | 2,519 | 4,980 | 4,444 |
Among the 94,695 people seen for human immunodeficiency virus care between 1 October 2019 and 30 September 2020, 4,444 people were not retained in care, that is were not seen for care again for at least 15 months, by the end of 2021.