Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will introduce routine screening of blood for micro-clots in patients presenting with long covid.

The UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) is an independent scientific body which makes recommendations to the Government and the National Health Service. The UK NSC has not reviewed evidence to offer routine blood screening blood for micro-clots in patients presenting with the long term effects of COVID-19. Population screening programmes aim to offer tests to people who appear healthy or who are symptom-free to assess the risk of developing a specific disease or to detect disease at an earlier, more easily treatable stage. Post COVID-19 is a new condition and our understanding continues to grow.