Anyone needing a blood test at A&E will be screened
Picture: Ealing Hospital
Anyone being treated in local A&Es who requires a blood test will be automatically tested for HIV and Hepatitis from this week.
The decision, which will apply to both Ealing and Northwick Park hospitals, is part of a pan-London initiative as part of the Government’s wider goal of ending new HIV cases by 2030
At present, more than 38,000 people are HIV positive in the capital.
Ian Green, CEO of the Terrence Higgins Trust said, ‘The expansion of opt-out HIV testing in emergency departments is an important step change when it comes to reaching our life-changing goal of ending new HIV cases by 2030.
“We need to be testing more people, more often in order to find the estimated 4,660 people living with undiagnosed HIV in the UK.”
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May 18, 2022