Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 25 November 2022 to Question 89695 on Cardiovascular Diseases, in what format the information is held; and if the NHS will make an assessment of the potential effectiveness of the blood test being developed by the British Heart Foundation and Queen Mary University, London, to detect myocarditis.

The following table shows the number of primary diagnoses and admissions cases for myocarditis and pericarditis in each year from 2018 to 2021. However, this does not represent the number of patients, as a person may have more than one admission within the period.

Source: NHS Digital

Any assessment of the potential effectiveness of the blood test being developed by the British Heart Foundation and Queen Mary University would be made by the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence.