HCV Research UK is a consortium of leading stakeholders in the United Kingdom (UK), including all the major adult and paediatric liver centres. The remit of HCV Research UK is to address critical gaps in our understanding of the Hepatitis C Virus (HCV). The HCV Research UK clinical database and biobank includes in excess of 10,000 patients from across the UK, who have attended a specialist HCV clinic for care/management of their HCV infection. The mean age at baseline is 48.5 years, and although most (58%) participants were aged between 45 and 64 years, the cohort also includes a subgroup of 85 children aged under 16 years. In total, 10,184 patients with past or current chronic infection were enrolled into the cohort through attendance at one of 56 specialist UK HCV clinics between March 2012 and July 2015. Almost all of the highly populated parts of the UK are represented in the cohort, with most participants recruited from Yorkshire, London, the West Midlands and Glasgow.

Recruitment is ongoing