Category: NHS

  • HIV Testing in Manchester

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    We like to be comprehensive at Saving Lives, so, following our coverage yesterday of the great routine testing programme being rolled out at Chelsea & Westminster Hospitals, here’s another encouraging story from Manchester: “Patients being admitted to Manchester Royal Infirmary are being routinely offered HIV screening as part of a new policy to boost detection…

  • HIV Tests in A&E

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    Here’s a fantastic news story from the BBC: Chelsea and Westminster and St Mary’s Hospitals have begun to offer HIV tests to patients in their accident and emergency departments. This is precisely the sort of normalisation of HIV testing that Saving Lives campaigns for. Dr Ann Sullivan, Consultant Physician at Chelsea and Westminster, is quoted in…

  • PAPER: TESTING HINDERED BY GUIDELINES

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    A paper presented at the annual conference of the British HIV Association a few week ago argued that a number of current clinical guidelines do not support, or actively contradict, specialist HIV clinical recommendations that a wide a range as possible of non-HIV specialists such offer HIV tests to their patients. Presented by Martin Fisher,…

  • Saving Lives on BBC Radio

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    Louise and two HIV-positive patient advocates appeared this morning on BBC Radio WM’s Andrew Peach show. You can listen to the segment below, which focuses on the experiences of HIV-positive people today, and on the importance of HIV testing. We’re immensely proud of our patient advocates for coming onto the show with Louise, and want…