Ms Nicola Perry:

Again, that was discussed at the meeting last week. There is a pilot test to go ahead, the Deputy is quite correct, with apparently 1,000 test kits. The structure for that to be rolled out is not in place yet. The national hepatitis C treatment programme is apparently in discussions as we speak as to what that might look like. The current prediction is that it will probably be rolled out in the first quarter of 2023 because they need to look at some governance issues as to how that will work. Speaking just from my perspective, while at-home testing and anything that increases people's ability to test is clearly a positive thing, one would have to ensure full good governance and an ethical position that there is a clear pathway to follow up, that is, we would not ever want somebody to be at home by themselves finding out that they have got a positive result without a very clear pathway as to how that care pathway could be followed up.