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Type: On-demand
Recorded: 12 May 2025

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Hepatitis B in General Practice

On-demand recorded 12 May 2025

Primary care clinicians play a crucial role in enhancing the health of individuals living with chronic hepatitis B (CHB). Primary care clinicians should be informed of the risks associated with hepatitis B infection, actively test people at risk, monitor people with chronic disease (viral load testing)and promote vaccination.

Clinical guidelines recommend that all people living with CHB should be engaged in regular care. Viral load testing is an essential component in the laboratory assessment and identifies the need for treatment.

The proportion of people monitored for CHB has gradually declined over time. The NSW Hepatitis B Strategy 2023-2026 has set a target of 100% in care. In 2021, an estimated 30.7% of people in NSW received the necessary care (treatment and monitoring).

This webinar highlights the essential role of GPs in diagnosis and monitoring CHB and provides access to resources to support the care of individuals living with CHB.

Learning outcomes

Identify opportunities for hepatitis B testing and vaccination among at-risk people.
Summarise primary care clinicians’ role in identifying, diagnosing, monitoring, and treating people with chronic hepatitis B.
Utilise hepatitis B referral and clinical support tools.

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Facilitator

Dr Caran Cheung

Caran is a s100 Hepatitis B and HIV prescriber. She works in General Practice in Sydney and has a special interest in sexual health, viral hepatitis and addiction medicine. She is a clinical editor at South Eastern Sydney HealthPathways and enjoys providing education to other GPs.

Speaker

A/Prof. Ken Liu
Clinician scientist and staff specialist transplant hepatologist

A/Prof. Ken Liu (MBBS, BSc, PhD, FRACP) is a clinician scientist and staff specialist transplant hepatologist at the Australian National Liver Transplant Unit, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital (RPAH). Prior to becoming a consultant, he spent a year overseas as the hepatology fellow at The Chinese University of Hong Kong seeing patients with chronic hepatitis B and conducting research in this area. He regularly teaches GP HBV prescribers. He has been involved in writing national and international guidelines on chronic hepatitis B, liver cancer and liver transplantation.

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