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Long Covid: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his department are taking to improve recognition and provision for people with long COVID.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
3 Mar 2026
Target answer date
5 Mar 2026
Answer
16 Mar 2026 · 13 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 3 Mar 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his department are taking to improve recognition and provision for people with long COVID.

  2. 5 Mar 2026

    Target answer date

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  3. 16 Mar 2026

    Answer published

    NHS England has invested significantly in supporting people with long covid. This includes setting up specialist post-COVID-19, or long covid, services nationwide for adults, and children and young people, and investing in ensuring general practice teams ...

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