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Health Services and Social Services: Long Covid

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the potential impact of Long Covid on the health and social care workforce.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
9 Oct 2024
Target answer date
14 Oct 2024
Answer
16 Oct 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 9 Oct 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the potential impact of Long Covid on the health and social care workforce.

  2. 14 Oct 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 16 Oct 2024

    Answer published

    The most recent data from the Office for National Statistics estimated that for the 4-week period ending 5 March 2023, 4.41% of healthcare workers and 5.33% of social care workers had self-reported long COVID symptoms of any duration.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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