Paediatric Inflammatory Multisystem Syndrome: Health Services
(asked on 6th December 2021) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure accurate (a) diagnosis and (b) treatment of paediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome.
In 2020, the National Health Service was the first healthcare system internationally to identify the constellation of symptoms that constitute the Paediatric Inflammatory Multisystem Syndrome Temporally Related to SARS-COV-2 infection in children (PIMS-TS). NHS England collaborated with the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health to create a case definition for PIMS-TS. Cases will be identified based on guidance from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence and the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. NHS England convened an expert group of clinicians to develop a consensus guideline on the treatment of PIMS-TS, which is available at the following link: