PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
(8 September 2025)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which NHS accident and emergency departments (a) offer and (b) do not offer an (i) HIV, (ii) hepatitis B and (iii) hepatitis C test to all patients requiring a blood test.

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Dr Caroline Johnson (Conservative)

Emergency Department (ED) opt-out testing is currently being offered to all extremely high and high HIV prevalence areas in England until the end of March 2026. A detailed list of specific sites offering opt-out HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C testing is contained in the attached table.

The Department, together with the UK Health Security Agency and NHS England, are working together in the development of a new HIV Action Plan which we aim to publish later in 2025. The plan will include a focus on scaling up HIV testing, including an assessment of the future of opt out testing based on the programme’s progress and available data in line with our 2030 ambition.

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