UK guidelines recommend offering hepatitis C testing to populations at increased risk, including people who have ever injected drugs, people born or brought up in countries with an intermediate or high prevalence (2% or greater), prisoners, and people living in homeless hostels or on the streets NICE.
GPs and practice nurses should offer testing for hepatitis C to adults and children at increased risk, particularly migrants from medium- or high-prevalence countries and people who inject or have injected drugs NICE.
Testing should be considered in settings such as prisons, immigration removal centres, and through local community services serving migrant populations, with policies developed in partnership with local health authorities NICE.
People identified as positive should be referred for specialist assessment and ongoing management NICE CKS.