Focus on primary care before we run out of hep C patients, says Ed Gane

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Focus on primary care before we run out of hep C patients, says Ed Gane
Cliff Taylor
But the flow of easy-to-reach patients, treated mainly in hospital clinics, is coming to an end. The pressing need is to engage with the 48,000 patients believed to be in the community, he says.

Treatment rate plateauing 
Until March, between 150 and 200 patients were being treated each month, but the number is now about 105.

“We wouldn’t expect that to be happening so soon,” Professor Gane says. “We would have expected it to remain high, or increase.”

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