{"value":{"id":1362633,"askingMemberId":4471,"askingMember":null,"house":"Commons","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2021-10-22T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2021-10-26T00:00:00","uin":"61172","questionText":"To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate he has made of the number of people with long covid; and what assessment he has made of the level of demand among people with long covid for (a) clinical support and (b) rehabilitation.","answeringBodyId":17,"answeringBodyName":"Department of Health and Social Care","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":false,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":4492,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2021-10-28T00:00:00","answerText":"<p>The latest prevalence data for ‘long’ COVID-19 published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) estimated that 1.1 million people living in private households in the United Kingdom were experiencing self-reported symptoms as at 5 September 2021. However, it should be noted that not everyone with persistent symptoms will need access to health care. NHS England and NHS Improvement have provisionally estimated that approximately 2.9% of people will need NHS support. NHS England and NHS Improvement have estimated that approximately 30% to 50% of patients could be appropriate for supported self-management, 18% to 30% could be treated in primary and community care and 20% to 50% through specialist services and rehabilitation pathways.</p>","originalAnswerText":"","comparableAnswerText":"","dateAnswerCorrected":null,"dateHoldingAnswer":null,"attachmentCount":0,"heading":"Long Covid","attachments":[],"groupedQuestionsDates":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Questions/1362633","method":"GET"}]}