Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many cases of hepatitis C have been diagnosed in each of the last five years for which figures are available; and how many of those were diagnosed in the Accident and Emergency department of a hospital.
Public Health England (PHE) receives laboratory reports of hepatitis C cases from England and these are shown, for the last five years where data is available, in the following table. This data can also be found in the attached report, Hepatitis C in the UK 2015 report.
PHE does not routinely collect information on cases of hepatitis C diagnosed in accident and emergency departments.
Laboratory reports of hepatitis C England, 2011 to 2015
Year | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 |
Total | 9,905 | 10,855 | 11,055 | 11,471 | 11,548 |
Source: Hepatitis C in the UK 2015 report