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Long Covid

Asked by Bobby DeanLiberal DemocratDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled Answered 5 September 2025UIN 72975

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will take steps to establish a national database of long covid patients.

Answered by Ashley Dalton

Aggregated historical data remains accessible via the long COVID dashboard on the NHS National Data Platform (Foundry). This dashboard continues to support commissioners and service providers by enabling the monitoring of service activity, evaluation of equity in access and healthcare utilisation, and benchmarking of performance across services.

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