Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people are currently awaiting a first assessment at a long covid clinic.

Since September 2021, information on activity and demographics of patients who have been referred to a post-COVID-19 assessment service in England have been published as part of the official statistics publication, which can be found at the following link:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/covid-19-post-covid-assessment-service/

Data on waiting times was first added to this publication in October 2021, for the period from 2 August. As this is a relatively new data collection and this is experimental data, some variation may be due to incomplete data submissions.

The attached table shows the waiting times of patients who had an initial assessment at a post-COVID-19 assessment service between 27 September and 24 October 2021.