A new report from the Health Protection Agency shows that the number of people newly diagnosed with hepatitis C has increased; from 2,116 in 1996, to 7,580 in 2005. New figures also show that testing for hepatitis C has increased overall, for example, in GP surgeries’, testing has increased by almost 60 per cent between 2002 and 2005.The latest estimates on the number of adults infected with hepatitis C showed there were around 231,000 in 2003. [click link for full article]