Tag: doctor steve taylor

  • HIV & Hepatitis Opt-out Testing Expands to all Birmingham Emergency Departments

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    Saving Lives One Blood Test at a Time … Great news just in from our home city… starting today, Tuesday 18th March 2025, all patients aged 16 and over who have bloods taken at the emergency departments of Heartlands and Good Hope Hospitals in Birmingham will be also be tested for HIV, hepatitis B, and…

  • Opt-out testing for HIV and hepatitis begins in Birmingham emergency departments

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    The roll-out of opt-out testing across forty-seven sites nationwide hits the West Midlands today. All patients aged 16 and over attending the emergency department at Birmingham’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital will now be routinely tested for HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C infections if they are already having a blood test taken. This fantastic progress will…

  • HIV charity calls for renewed focus on late diagnoses and those outside London

    The Saving Lives charity has welcomed the latest HIV data from Public Health England and is calling for a renewed focus on tackling both late diagnoses and undiagnosed populations outside London. On the 16th January 2020 Public Health England released its annual ‘HIV in the United Kingdom‘ report. The report made for compelling reading, and…

  • HIV Testing Week 2019 – Get Tested, Get Treated

    This week, November 16th – 22nd 2019, is National HIV Testing Week in the UK. Saving Lives’ message is clear: “HIV testing is quick, simple and could save your life”. National HIV Testing Week (NHTW) aims to promote regular testing among key populations. It aims to reduce the numbers of undiagnosed people and those diagnosed late.…

  • New U=U resource empowers patient-doctor conversations

    The Saving Lives charity has released a new resource aimed at empowering patient-doctor conversations around U=U The charity, who are exhibiting at the British HIV Association (BHIVA) conference in London this week, developed the leaflets and accompanying social media campaign to help both patients and doctors alike discuss the prevention benefits of Undetectable = Untransmittable…

  • Social Media as a Health Promotion tool

    Social media is a potentially useful tool in raising awareness about important health issues. Campaigns such as HIV Testing Week ((HTW) 18-24 Nov 2017) generate thousands of tweets by organisations and individuals, with onward sharing potentially reaching many times more people.  We set out to describe the overall tweeting activity before and during HTW, we…

  • Saving Lives reaffirms support for access to PrEP to prevent HIV

    The Saving Lives charity reaffirms its support for greater access to PrEP to those most at risk to help prevent HIV infections. This morning BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme aired a piece on PrEP in England. The broadcast featured our Medical Director, Steve Taylor. You can listen again here. In the following piece Saving Lives…