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‘Since AstraZeneca was given out how many claims have been paid out under the VDPS scheme for people who had PE as a result Please do not include VITT within the results’

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Question 1 - Since AstraZeneca was given out how many claims have been paid out under the VDPS scheme for people who had PE as a result Please do not include VITT within the results

VDPS assessments are complex. Each claim is assessed on a case-by-case basis, based on the individual's medical records, scientific evidence, clinical research and epidemiological evidence.

The claimant can tell us what happened after vaccination on the claim form. At the medical assessment stage, the 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 and may therefore be different to the condition initially stated by the claimant on their original claim form.

We've refined how awarded conditions are categorised. This means some claims for pulmonary embolism have been re-categorised. Those occurring as part of vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia (VITT) are now listed under VITT. There have therefore been no awards for Pulmonary Embolism occurring outside the presence of VITT.

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