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The UK Liver Alliance is calling for liver disease to be a health priority
The UK Liver Alliance has written to the Secretary of State for Health, Steve Barclay, calling for liver disease to be appropriately recognised in policy initiatives, plans and strategies. The UK Liver Alliance is a coalition of more ...
Top ten tips for coffee morning success!
Coffee mornings can be a brilliant Big Yellow Friday fundraiser as well as a great excuse for a get together. Emma has done one every year for several years, raising over £8000 for CLDF. Here she shares her tips for maximising income ...
New hepatitis B in England report sets the stage for action on elimination
The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has released a new report on hepatitis B in England. The report is the first of its kind. It sets out the data on hepatitis B and how near England is to meeting the WHO targets to eliminate ...
Mother to child transmission of Hepatitis B eliminated in England
Hepatitis B transmission from mothers to babies has been eliminated in England, thanks to universal screening and targeted infant immunisation.
An estimated 206,000 people in England live with chronic hepatitis B, a viral infection ...
NHS Blood and Transplant are seeking the views of patients on living donor liver transplantation
Living donor liver transplantation emerged across the world in the early 1990s in response to the shortfall in available donor organs for patients in need of a liver transplantation. Since 1998, paediatric centres in the UK have been ...
MPs call for urgent action to tackle surging deaths caused by late diagnosis of liver disease
On Tuesday 17th January, the British Liver Trust and the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Liver Disease and Liver Cancer invited MPs from across 4 nations to attend an awareness raising event on the liver disease epidemic in the ...
Support our call for opt-out testing of hepatitis B and hepatitis C in more emergency departments
The British Liver Trust has joined with other charities leading in the fight against Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C and HIV to call on the government to fund testing for blood-borne viruses in emergency departments across England.
In an ...
Welsh Parliament hold first ever debate on liver disease and liver cancer public health emergency
On Wednesday, the Welsh Parliament (Senedd Cymru) held the first ever debate on the liver disease and liver cancer crisis in Wales to mark the Less Survivable Cancers Awareness Day and Love Your Liver month.
Coming two months ...
Liver cancer deaths are surging due to late diagnosis of the less survivable cancers
The British Liver Trust marked the Less Survivable Cancers Awareness Day by calling for urgent action from parliamentarians in Westminster, the Scottish Parliament and Welsh Senedd to tackle delays in diagnosis for deadly cancers ...
Less Survivable Cancers Awareness Day – calling for action to improve early diagnosis
Today (January 11th) is National Less Survivable Cancers Awareness Day, which aims to highlight the critical importance of early diagnosis in improving survival and quality of life for people diagnosed with less survivable cancers ...
Liver disease crisis in Wales to come under the spotlight at Senedd Cymru
Senedd Members will today (11th January) debate the urgent action required to curb the alarming rise in liver disease deaths in Wales, which have surged by 23% in just two years.
Coming two months after the Welsh government published ...
National Obesity Awareness Week: Fat and the liver
The British Liver Trust is proud to support National Obesity Awareness Week.
The week aims to raise vital awareness of how excess weight can increase health risks, what we can do to prevent it, and how we can tackle it if we are ...
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