Exclusive: NHS to use AI to identify people at higher risk of hepatitis C

Screening programme will detect people with the deadly infection, which is often symptomless in early stages

The NHS is to use artificial intelligence to detect, screen and treat people at risk of hepatitis C under plans to eradicate the disease by 2030.

Hepatitis C often does not have any noticeable symptoms until the liver has been severely damaged, which means thousands of people are living with the infection - known as the silent killer - without realising it.