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New taskforce to manage the NHS approach to Long Covid

More than 40 clinics specialising in Long Covid will open this month to assess patients with enduring physical and psychological symptoms of Covid-19 such as continuing fatigue, brain fog, breathlessness and pain.

More than 40 clinics specialising in Long Covid will open this month to assess patients with enduring physical and psychological symptoms of Covid-19 such as continuing fatigue, brain fog, breathlessness and pain.

NHS England has provided £10 million to help over 60,000 patients in the UK with Long Covid.

Patients will be able to access services through a GP referral or referral from other healthcare professional, allowing doctors an opportunity to rule out any other possible underlying causes for symptoms, such as suspected stroke, lung cancers or respiratory conditions.

Ten sites have been earmarked for the Midlands, seven in the North East, six in the East of England, South West and South East respectively, five in London and three in the North West.

New taskforce to examine the lasting effects of coronavirus

The NHS has also launched a new taskforce, with patients, charities, researchers and clinicians, to help manage the NHS approach to long COVID’and produce information and support materials for patients and healthcare professionals to develop a wider understanding of the condition.

NHS Chief Executive Sir Simon Stevens said: “Long COVID is already having a very serious impact on many people’s lives and could well go on to affect hundreds of thousands.

“That is why, while treating rising numbers of patients who are sick with the virus and many more who do not have it, the NHS is taking action to address those suffering ongoing health issues.

“These pioneering ‘long Covid’ clinics will help address the very real problems being faced by patients today while the taskforce will help the NHS develop a greater understanding of the lasting effects of coronavirus.”

A study from King’s College London found that older people, women and those with a greater number of different symptoms in the first week of their illness were more likely to develop long Covid with one in 10 still unable to shake off the side effects eight weeks after infection.

More recent evidence is also showing that long COVID can be categorised into four different syndromes: post intensive care syndrome, post viral fatigue syndrome, permanent organ damage and long term COVID syndrome.

For more news and articles on Long Covid go to our Covid-19 section.

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