Reaching mEthadone Users Attending Community pHarmacies With HCV

NACompletedINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

210

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

October 8, 2019

Primary Completion Date

January 14, 2021

Study Completion Date

January 14, 2021

Conditions
Hepatitis C
Interventions
OTHER

Reach Pathway

Trial of outreach nurse offering point-of-care Hepatitis C (HCV) testing to opiate substitution therapy patients in community pharmacies, which is hypothesised to improve number of patients tested and cured of HCV.

OTHER

Education-only Pathway

Trial of community pharmacists advising opiate substitution therapy patients to attend a local blood-borne virus clinic to be tested for Hepatitis C by a specialist nurse, which represents the standard care pathway for HCV patients in the countries included in the study.

Trial Locations (3)

Unknown

The Burnet Institute, Melbourne

NHS Tayside, Dundee

Public Health Wales, Cardiff

Sponsors

Collaborators (1)

All Listed Sponsors
collaborator

Public Health Wales

OTHER_GOV

collaborator

Burnet Institute

OTHER

lead

University of Dundee

OTHER