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Campaign success as DHSC announces liver scanning will be made available in 100 Community Diagnostic Centres
Health Minister Helen Whately has confirmed that FibroScan services will be made available in 100 Community Diagnostic Centres. This is a major policy development and demonstrates the success of a joint British Liver Trust and UK ...
Love Your Liver visits the Senedd Cymru
The British Liver Trust brought their new Love Your Liver mobile to Senedd Cymru on Tuesday 14 March, to showcase their work to improve liver health to the Welsh parliament and offer free liver screening and scanning to Members of the ...
British Liver Trust Statement on the Spring Budget 2023
The British Liver Trust is delighted that our campaign, in partnership with the Alcohol Health Alliance, for alcohol duty to increase in line with inflation has been confirmed in this week’s Budget. From the 1st August most alcohol ...
NHS on-the-spot liver scans identify hundreds at risk of cancer
An NHS programme to deliver on-the-spot scans to people at risk of liver cancer has identified hundreds of people with disease that need further checks.
Roaming trucks have visited cities including Bristol, Liverpool, London, ...
Thousands call on Government to expand opt-out testing for HIV and Hepatitis
Leading charities have delivered an open letter to Public Health Minister Neil O’Brien and NHS England Chief Executive Amanda Pritchard, urging them to expand opt-out HIV, Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C testing in emergency departments ...
New Love Your Liver unit launched to reach and support more people at risk of liver disease
We are delighted to announce the launch of our new, larger Love Your Liver mobile unit, which will allow us to reach more people across the UK and engage with more stakeholders.
Pamela Healy OBE, chief executive at the British Liver ...
British Liver Trust appoints new Chair of Trustees
Sheriff and Alderman of City of London, Alastair King has been appointed the new Chair of the British Liver Trust. Here he talks about his aspirations for the charity.
I am delighted to be the new Chair of the British Liver Trust. ...
Liver charity raises concerns as numbers of people calling helpline surge due to pressure in the NHS and the rising cost of living
The British Liver Trust has expressed concern as the charity reports 58% more calls to their nurse-led helpline in January 2023 than in January 2022, with around 95 per cent of callers citing difficulty in obtaining an appointment in ...
NHS Fife leading the way in the early detection of liver disease
NHS Fife is the latest region in Scotland to confirm that it has a new effective pathway for the early detection of liver disease. Scotland is facing a public health emergency with liver disease one of the leading causes of death in ...
Liver nurses ‘listen for red flags’ and are here to help
My name is Rebecca, and I am proud to manage the British Liver Trust’s nurse-led helpline. We are here for everyone with any type of liver condition or liver cancer.
It may be a call from the patient, or from a family member who is ...
British Liver Trust supports Obesity Health Alliance Position Statement on Health Inequalities
The Obesity Health Alliance (OHA) is a coalition of 50 health organisations including the British Liver Trust, British Heart Foundation, Cancer Research UK, Diabetes UK the British Medical Association and medical royal colleges and ...
New report aims to improve the systems surrounding organ use so more lives can be saved by transplantation
The British Liver Trust has welcomed the recommendations outlined in a new report published today which aims to improve our transplantation system and will hopefully result in more liver transplants for those in need. The report also ...
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