Question follow-through · 86810
Hepatitis and HIV/AIDS: Accident and Emergency Departments
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the NHS emergency department opt-out testing programme on early diagnosis rates for (a) HIV, (b) hepatitis B and (c) hepatitis C.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 30 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 11 Nov 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
30 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the NHS emergency department opt-out testing programme on early diagnosis rates for (a) HIV, (b) hepatitis B and (c) hepatitis C.
3 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Nov 2025
Answer published
A public health evaluation of the emergency department blood-borne virus opt-out testing programme for the first 34 sites taking part showed that there were 3,667 new diagnoses of hepatitis B, 831 of hepatitis C, and 719 of HIV between April 2022 and Dece...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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