Table 4 Self-reported barriers and support needs to providing hepatitis B-related care (categorised free-text comments)

• Patient-related factors

    - “Very low risk in my patient population”

    - “Transient patients”

    - “Patient occasionally decline testing”

• Knowledge and confidence

    - “Lack of knowledge”

    - “Screening is easy but I know a lot less about management”

• Competing priorities and lack of time

    - “Other much more common diseases to screen”

    - “We are overloaded with multiple comorbidities with our complex patients. We can’t do everything as GPs on the rebates we get and the lack of time”

• Geographic barriers in accessing healthcare facilities

    - “500 km to closest place to get ultrasound + no fibroscan here”

• Innovative/ guideline to incorporating hepatitis B testing into routine clinical care

    - “Usual (HBV) screening packaged as with chronic disease screening or for STI”

• Continued education

    - “Need further education”

• Specialists’ support

    - “Availability of shared care with a specialist”

• Education resources and programs targeting the community

    - “Patient resources in Burmese languages”

    - “Community information program targeting at-risk groups”