This is a huge scandal:
The NHS tells clinicians to code U07.3 when a past Covid infection is still affecting a patient's health - yet that same influence is *banned* from death statistics.
Hospital episodes show huge ongoing harm, but mortality data pretends it isn’t there.
😮I want to smash something.
I've just stumbled across the official NHS coding guidance for U07.3 - 'Personal history of Covid-19' - and it left me on the floor.
🚨When paired with the data on the number of times it is currently used, it is a huge unknown national scandal.