Request

1. Please can you also ask the appropriate department to answer my question of many claims related to Atrial Fibrillation after COVID vaccine have been submitted in the last 2 years and

2. How many of them have been successful under the Freedom of Information Act.

Response

I can confirm that the NHSBSA holds the information you have requested

All data as of 23 July 2024. All data relates to claims received by the NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) and those transferred from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) on 1 November 2021. All figures provided relate to COVID-19 vaccines.

Question 1

The claimant can tell us what happened after vaccination on the claim form. At the medical assessment stage, the independent medical assessor provides a description of the assessed conditions they have been able to identify from the claimant's medical records. This can sometimes be a mixture of conditions. The condition recorded against each claim may therefore be different to the condition initially stated by the claimant on their original claim form. All data provided relates to the conditions listed by the independent medical assessor in the assessment report.

66 claims for a Vaccine Damage Payment relating to atrial fibrillation have been submitted to the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme (VDPS).

Question 2

No claims relating to atrial fibrillation have been awarded a Vaccine Damage Payment.

Publishing this response

Please note that this information will be published on our Freedom of Information disclosure log at:

https://opendata.nhsbsa.net/dataset/foi-02105