Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to update the 2021 NICE guideline for long covid.

We have no plans to instruct the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) to review its guideline on managing the long-term effects of COVID-19. The NICE develops its guidance independently and keeps its published guidelines under active surveillance so that it is able to update its recommendations in light of any significant new evidence. Decisions on updates to existing guidance are made by the NICE’s Prioritisation Board, in line with NICE’s published common prioritisation framework. The NICE does not currently have plans to update its guideline on managing the long-term effects of COVID-19.