Thursday 15 May 2014

Health and wellbeing boards and hepatitis C

Health and wellbeing boards and hepatitis C NICE Public Health Guidance, which provides recommendations that can help prevent disease or improve health, recommends that hepatitis B and C should be included in a health and wellbeing board’s joint strategic needs assessment. This report which examined whether health and wellbeing boards are tackling hepatitis C found that prioritisation of the condition was low in local strategies. It calls for greater collaboration between local authorities and health services in order to raise awareness, screening and more targeted commissioning. The Hepatitis Trust

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