Hepatitis

(asked on 6th March 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether NHS England plans to continue with a run-rate allocation to each operational delivery network for the treatment of Hepatitis C in 2017-18; and what that allocation for that treatment in that financial year will be.


This question was answered on 9th March 2017

The 22 operational delivery networks have been allocated hepatitis C treatment run rates in line with a tool produced by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), which in turn is based on advice from independent expert clinicians and patients regarding estimates of treatment uptake and is published alongside the NICE treatment recommendations.

NHS England is currently planning to increase the national hepatitis C treatment run rate for 2017/18 from 10,000 to 12,500 patients. As in 2016/17, NHS England will keep the run rates for each operational delivery network under review.

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