Hepatitis C in Severe Mental Disorders: Nursing Programme

A clinical pathway will be activate that allows all the necessary interventions, once the person is diagnosed, to be carried out on the same day, and a mental health nursing team will monitor the entire process.

Referral to the family doctor for a request for follow-up by the gastroenterologist. The specialist prescribes the tests for the definitive diagnosis that will take place in other units (with their corresponding appointments). After this, the patient will return to the specialist to establish the treatment to follow. Pharmacological treatment will be dispensed at the hospital pharmacy (collected once a month until completion of treatment and confirmation of cure). This last step of the treatment will be done in a new consultation at the gastroenterology service after blood tests to verify the disappearance of the viral load.