Press release: NHS Confederation comments On Hepatitis C Trust report

24 May 2006

Commenting on today's report published by the Hepatitis C Trust, Jo Webber, Deputy Policy Director of the NHS Confederation which represents more than 90 per cent of NHS organisations, said:

"We welcome this report because it helps to highlight the impact of such little known conditions as Hepatitis C and their impact on public health.

"Reports such as these also provide another example of the wide range of issues that primary care trusts have to manage on a daily basis. These are organisations with very large and complex agendas.

"Furthermore, PCTS are currently going through a massive time of change and restructuring. Unfortunately there are many competing demands within a local health community - not everything can be of equal priority for PCTs.

"That is why it is important that reports like this continue to be written and published as they help to push the importance of such conditions up the health agenda."

ENDS

 

Notes for editors

1. The NHS Confederation represents more than 90% of the organisations that make up the NHS. Its members include the majority of NHS acute trusts, ambulance trusts, foundation trusts, mental health trusts, primary care trusts, special health authorities and strategic health authorities in England; trusts and local health boards in Wales; and health and social service trusts and boards in Northern Ireland. 

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