Question follow-through · 8687
Hepatitis: Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to continue the Hepatitis C opt-out testing programme beyond March 2025.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 11 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 15 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 21 Oct 2024 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Health and care
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- Hepatitis: Disease Control · 21 Oct 2024
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- Pharmacy · 17 Apr 2025
- Diagnosis: National Clinical Directors · 1 May 2025
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
11 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to continue the Hepatitis C opt-out testing programme beyond March 2025.
15 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 Oct 2024
Answer published
Opt-out testing in emergency departments for bloodborne viruses, including hepatitis C, is live at 34 sites in areas of extremely high prevalence of HIV, and is expanding to areas of high prevalence of HIV. A further 47 emergency department sites will be ...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
Strong links require the same MP, department and exact heading. Other same-department questions are shown as unreviewed candidates, not as confirmed follow-ups. No debate link is asserted unless a stable source relationship exists.
Hepatitis: Screening
21 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he plans to take to promote awareness of World Hepatitis Testing Week in November 2024.
Hepatitis: Disease Control
21 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to plan for the sustainable maintenance of hepatitis C elimination in England.
Health: Cycling
14 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the potential impact of cycle commuting on (a) mental health and (b) healthy behaviours.
Pharmacy
17 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of GP surgeries have signposted patients to the Pharmacy First scheme.
Diagnosis: National Clinical Directors
1 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the report by the British In Vitro Diagnostics Association entitled Unlocking our communities diagnostic potential: the case for supporting the adoption of community diagnostics f
Pharmacy
19 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help increase referral rates to the Pharmacy First service.
Pharmacy: Publicity
19 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to promote the Pharmacy First service.
Pharmacy: Finance
19 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to align the General Practice and Community Pharmacy funding and operating frameworks.
NHS: Drugs
29 Aug 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to hold discussions with the Reclassification Alliance on the future of medicines reclassification.