GPs recording low numbers of long Covid compared with survey estimates

Research finds number of recorded cases is nearly 100 times smaller than adults estimated to have had condition

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GPs in England may be failing to recognise thousands of cases of long Covid, according to research that raises questions about how the condition is diagnosed, recorded and managed in the NHS.

Researchers at Oxford University analysed the GP records of nearly 58 million people in England from February 2020 to April 2021 and found that only 23,273 had a formal diagnosis of long Covid in their medical notes.