Long Covid

(asked on 26th October 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reason his Department is not recording cases of long covid.


Answered by
Maria Caulfield Portrait
Maria Caulfield
This question was answered on 29th October 2021

Currently there is no one single test for ‘long’ COVID-19. Therefore, it is not possible to publish case numbers.

NHS England and NHS Improvement publish activity data and demographic information for patients who have been referred to a ‘long’ COVID-19 assessment clinic.

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