Hepatitis B And The Rising Curve Report

EDM number 708 in 2007-08, proposed by David Amess on 16/01/2008.
Categorised under the topics of Diseases, Health education and preventive medicine and Health services.

That this House is alarmed by the figures exposed in the Rising Curve report published by the Hepatitis B Foundation UK, revealing that chronic hepatitis B in the UK has doubled since 2002, rising from 180,000 people to 325,000; calls on the Department of Health to revise figures on chronic hepatitis B to ensure trusts receive the full funding necessary for hepatitis B prevention and treatment; further calls upon the Government to implement urgently a hepatitis B strategy and preventative public health measures on hepatitis B, including a reappraisal of the current vaccination policy; and further calls upon Government to introduce an effective GP and public education plan on hepatitis B in the UK.

This motion has been signed by a total of 58 MPs.