Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reason he is not requiring the clinical coding of long covid.

NHS Digital has established clinical codes for post-COVID-19 syndrome. Codes have been incorporated into primary care electronic record systems since January 2021. NHS England and NHS Improvement continue to promote and facilitate the uptake of appropriate clinical coding for care in primary care and post-COVID assessment services. The diagnostic coding is aligned to the clinical case definition published by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. The SNOMED-CT codes are as follows:

- Acute COVID-19 infection 1325171000000109;

- Ongoing symptomatic COVID-19 1325181000000106; and

- Post-COVID-19 syndrome 1325161000000102.