Long Covid
(asked on 13th December 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people in the UK have been diagnosed with Long Covid.
Answered by
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
This question was answered on 19th December 2022
NHS England promotes the use of diagnostic coding for post-COVID-19 syndrome. In primary care, this data is recorded and monitored via OpenSAFELY, which shows as of March 2022, 162,881 people had received a diagnostic code for the long term effects of COVID-19.