Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, where people in Birmingham, Edgbaston constituency will be able to access a long covid clinic.

NHS England and NHS Improvement have provided £10 million to fund over 40 pioneering ‘long COVID-19’ specialist clinics including ten in the North Midlands region. The plans for these clinics were published on 15 November and commissioning guidance was made available on 6 November.

NHS England and NHS Improvement have committed to ensuring post-COVID-19 syndrome assessment clinics will be made available from early December 2020. In response, each integrated care system is working towards the provision of at least one such service in each system, though the exact location for each system is yet to be detailed.

A number of these clinics are already established and new clinics will start to accept patients at the end of November and early December. More details will be made available shortly.