{"value":{"id":1752956,"askingMemberId":5219,"askingMember":null,"house":"Commons","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2024-12-19T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2025-01-07T00:00:00","uin":"902075","questionText":"To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that people with long covid are adequately supported.","answeringBodyId":17,"answeringBodyName":"Department of Health and Social Care","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":true,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":1506,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2025-01-07T00:00:00","answerText":"<p>I know firsthand how complex and debilitating long COVID can be.</p><p>Since 2020, specialist long COVID services have been made available in England, and NHS England is now completing a stocktake of these services.</p><p>This will provide an accurate national picture, identify key challenges and make strategic recommendations for future service improvement, development and assurance.</p><p>We have also invested over £57 million in long COVID research.</p>","originalAnswerText":"","comparableAnswerText":"","dateAnswerCorrected":null,"dateHoldingAnswer":null,"attachmentCount":0,"heading":"Long Covid: Health Services","attachments":[],"groupedQuestionsDates":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Questions/1752956","method":"GET"}]}