| Heading: |
Long Covid: Health Services |
| Question ID: |
1787544 |
| UIN: |
40555 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-03-24 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4673 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Jo Platt
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| Asking Member handle: |
JoPlattLeigh
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@JoPlattLeigh
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress his Department has made on (a) diagnostics and (b) treatment pathways for people with long covid. |
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false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-04-01 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4981 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Ashley Dalton
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| Answering Member handle: |
AshleyDalton_MP
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@AshleyDalton_MP
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| Answer text: |
There are no diagnostic tests for long COVID currently approved for use in the United Kingdom, and clinicians must rule out other conditions which present with similar symptoms to diagnose long COVID. Researchers are also working to identify blood-based b... |
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| Answering body ID: |
17 |
| Answering body name: |
Department of Health and Social Care |
| Tweeted: |
true |