69400 (2024). Hon Dr Ayesha Verrall to the Associate Minister of Health

69400 (2024). Hon Dr Ayesha Verrall to the Associate Minister of Health: What progress, if any, has been made in the quarter April to June 2024 toward the objective ‘Develop and evaluate current and new potential approaches to testing strategies based on a current stocktake of proof of concepts and pilots’ under ‘Focus area 3: Testing and screening’ in the National Hepatitis C Action Plan?

Hon Casey Costello: I am advised that planning for a national Hepatitis C prototype project in Emergency Departments (EDs) was paused during the April to June 2024 quarter due to the demands faced by EDs over the winter period. I am further advised that the community labs hepatitis C screening project was successfully implemented during the quarter, with 2781 people tested at four community lab sites over a two-week period.