Universal Barriers and Facilitators to Systemic Hepatitis C Care: A Systems‐Informed Qualitative Process Evaluation.

Scaling up hepatitis C virus (HCV) testing and treatment for people who inject drugs (PWID) is essential to achieve HCV elimination. We report a retrospective systems‐informed qualitative process evaluation of HCV care across multiple community‐based settings in a region in Scotland, UK. Using secon...

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Publicado en:Systems Research & Behavioral Science Vol. 43; no. 4; pp. 1673 - 1691
Autores principales: Vojt, Gabriele, Elliott, Lawrie, Family, Hannah E., Hutchinson, Sharon J., Hickman, Matthew, Dillon, John F., Flowers, Paul
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Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Jul/Aug2026
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          Vojt, Gabriele
          Elliott, Lawrie
          Family, Hannah E.
          Hutchinson, Sharon J.
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          National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Health Protection Research Unit in Evaluation and Behavioural Science, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
          Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
          School of Health & Life Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, UK
          NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) West, Bristol, UK
          Public Health Scotland, Edinburgh, UK
          National Drugs and Alcohol Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
          School of Medicine, University of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee, UK
          School of Psychological Sciences & Health, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
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      ab: Scaling up hepatitis C virus (HCV) testing and treatment for people who inject drugs (PWID) is essential to achieve HCV elimination. We report a retrospective systems‐informed qualitative process evaluation of HCV care across multiple community‐based settings in a region in Scotland, UK. Using secondary data from 71 semi‐structured interviews with HCV service providers (n = 40) and service users (n = 31) from across the whole system, we identified universal barriers and facilitators of delivering HCV care (access, testing, treatment, support) within four settings (i.e., enhanced needle and syringe programme services, prisons, pharmacies and drug treatment centres). HCV care had been delivered. We report only one, universal barrier (staff skills and confidence in HCV testing). Systemic HCV care can be delivered through coordinated, multi‐levelled actions across a given service ecology within a geographical area. Such systemic approaches are needed to achieve HCV elimination targets for the whole PWID population.
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