Long Covid: Health Services
(asked on 16th September 2021) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help ensure equitable access to Long Covid clinics across the country.
Since November 2020, £104 million has been invested by NHS England and NHS Improvement in developing and expanding 89 ‘long’ COVID-19 clinics, which included plans to ensure the most underserved populations are reached. ‘Long COVID: the NHS plan for 2021/22’, published in June 2021, details a system requirement to understand how services are meeting the needs of local populations, which is available at the following link:
NHS England and NHS Improvement have established a ‘long’ COVID-19 health inequalities workstream to provide direction to their ‘long’ COVID-19 programme on the potential impact of health inequalities and advise on mitigations.