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Hepatitis C

Volume 448: debated on Tuesday 4 July 2006

To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what the average waiting time for hepatitis C patients was from referral to first appointment with a consultant in the latest period for which figures are available; (80929)

(2) what the average waiting time was in the Bournemouth primary care trust for liver biopsy for hepatitis C patients in the latest period for which figures are available;

(3) how many patients in the Bournemouth primary care trust area received interferon treatment for hepatitis C with or without ribavirin in 2005-06; and how many of these waited for more than three months from their first hospital consultation.