Hepatitis C Action Plan for Scotland: Phase II (May 2008-March 2011)

D Goldberg; G Brown; S Hutchinson; J Dillon; A Taylor; G Howie; S Ahmed; Kirsty Roy; M King; Scotland’s Action Plan Co-ordinating Group, associated Working Groups and Executive Leads Group

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Hepatitis C Action Plan for Scotland: Phase II (May 2008-March 2011)
D Goldberg¹ , G Brown² , S Hutchinson¹ , J Dillon³ , A Taylor⁴ , G Howie⁵ , S Ahmed⁶ , Kirsty Roy¹ , M King¹ , Scotland’s Action Plan Co-ordinating Group, associated Working Groups and Executive Leads Group
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Affiliations: ¹ Health Protection Scotland, Glasgow, Scotland ² Public Health and Wellbeing Directorate, Scottish Government, Edinburgh, Scotland ³ Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee, Scotland ⁴ University of the West of Scotland, Paisley, Scotland ⁵ NHS Health Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland ⁶ Greater Glasgow and Clyde NHS Board, Glasgow, Scotland

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Citation style for this article: Goldberg D, Brown G, Hutchinson S, Dillon J, Taylor A, Howie G, Ahmed S, Roy Kirsty, King M, Scotland’s Action Plan Co-ordinating Group, associated Working Groups and Executive Leads Group Collective. Hepatitis C Action Plan for Scotland: Phase II (May 2008-March 2011). Euro Surveill. 2008;13(21):pii=18876. https://doi.org/10.2807/ese.13.21.18876-en Received: 13 May 2008

Abstract

In 2004, the Scottish Government recognised that 'Hepatitis C is one of the most serious and significant public health risks of our generation' [1] . By December 2006, Health Protection Scotland (HPS) estimated that 50,000 people in Scotland had been infected with the hepatitis C virus (HCV) and that 38,000 were chronic carriers (Figure 1) [2]. Following an extensive consultation in 2005, the Health Minister and Chief Medical Officer launched Scotland's 'Action Plan for Hepatitis C' in September 2006 [3]. .