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Content ArticleCOVID-19 presents many challenges to healthcare systems internationally, none more so than the significant reporting among healthcare workers (HCWs) of occupational fatigue and burnout or Long COVID related symptoms. Consensus on the extent of HCW fatigue during the pandemic remains largely unknown, as levels of Long COVID related fatigue in HCWs appears to be on the rise. What is known is that, among current levels, impacts of fatigue on HCW well-being and performance is likely. Developing strategies to mitigate fatigue are the responsibilities of all healthcare system stakeholders. Leadership that goes beyond organisational efforts of mitigating fatigue through mandated working hour limits alone are needed.
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Content ArticleThis leaflet offers guidance for workers from Occupational Health Professionals on how to manage getting back to work after COVID-19 infection and Long COVID.
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Content ArticleIn this video from The Guardian, we hear from University College London hospital's Long COVID clinic where patients are treated for a multitude of different chronic symptoms ranging from ongoing fatigue to issues with taste and smell. Some patients have been suffering for months, and the toll on their mental and physical health has been significant.
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Content ArticleThis report from Long Covid Support summarises patient's experiences of Long Covid.
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Content ArticleThis preprint study (not yet peer reviewed) provides further evidence on Long COVID in children. An anonymous, online survey was developed by an organisation of parents of children suffering from persisting symptoms since initial infection. Parents were asked to report signs and symptoms, physical activity and mental health issues. Only children with symptoms persisting for more than four weeks were included. Symptoms like fatigue, headache, muscle and joint pain, rashes and heart palpitations, and mental health issues like lack of concentration and short memory problems, were particularly frequent and confirm previous observations, suggesting that they may characterise this condition. Authors conclude that a better comprehension of Long COVID is urgently needed.
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Content ArticleThis report from the Tony Blair Institute looks at progress made in they released a report in October 2020 which set out a series of recommendations on how the government should respond to Long COVID. These recommendations covered: addressing the need for further research on Long COVID launching an awareness campaign improving diagnosis of Long COVID putting in place specialist support for sufferers using the COVID Symptom Study data to screen for those likely to develop Long COVID. This latest report, A long-term plan for Long Covid, includes: more detail on the recommendations made an update on what has happened in each area where appropriate, what more could be done.
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Content ArticleOn Wednesday 10 March the Health, Social Care and Sport Committee of the Senedd Cymru - Welsh Parliament held an evidence session on Long COVID. They heard from the patient group Long COVID Wales, academics and professional bodies.
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Content ArticleThis is a video recording of a oral evidence session of the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Coronavirus into the effects of Long COVID in children. This session took place during Long COVID week (11-15 January 2021), which aimed to highlight the experiences of the hundreds of thousands of people living with Long COVID in the UK.
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Content ArticleThis World Health Organization (WHO) policy brief highlights areas where policy-makers can take action to meet the challenge of post-Covid conditions based on what is currently known. It addresses the need for multidisciplinary, multispecialty approaches to assessment and management; development of new care pathways and contextually appropriate guidelines for health professionals; and the creation of appropriate services, including rehabilitation and online support tools.
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Learning from long Covid
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Patient recovery
At Cromwell Hospital’s Long Covid Clinic, a multidisciplinary team of consultants are learning lessons from the virus. Dr Brian O’Connor, a consultant in respiratory medicine, and consultant psychiatrist Dr Rajeev Dhar are part of the multidisciplinary Long Covid team at Cromwell Hospital. “We established the clinic because, between the various consultants, we recognised we had an increasing number of mutual patients who had symptoms that didn’t add up,” he explains. “You’d have patients with psychological symptoms, such as low-grade levels of anxiety and depression, but they would also display odd physical symptoms such as palpitations or breathlessness when they lay down.” The collaboration between consultants across the fields of respiratory medicine, cardiology, neurology and psychiatry has allowed them to pool information and recognise symptom patterns quickly. Both Dr O’Connor and Dr Dhar believe the holistic, multidisciplinary treatment being delivered at the clinic could have a longer-term effect — one that involves a fundamental change in attitudes and perspective. “Medicine often focuses on treating symptoms,” Dr Dhar explains, “but long Covid has made us think about how we help people to function better. Our approach is now focused on how people are functioning, because that tells us how well we’re managing the symptoms.” -
Content ArticleThis paper from Trish Greenhalgh and colleagues explores the lived experience of ‘brain fog’—the wide variety of neurocognitive symptoms that can follow Covid-19.
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Content ArticleIn this blog Barbara Melville-Jóhannesson, Long Covid campaigner, highlights the importance of including lived-experience in research and service-design. She lays out six actions for organisations to help ensure that involvement is not just a tick-box exercise.
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ACLS Training Centre: Resuscitation of COVID-19 patients (14 June 2021)
Anonymous posted an article in Good practice and useful resources
2020/2021 has been challenging for healthcare worker. We went from hearing the rumours of an outbreak of some kind of disease halfway across the world to upwards of 2 million infected and 125,000 dead with little known about the virus. Approximately 12%–19% of those infected will require hospitalisation and 3–6% will become critically ill. These patients are at high risk of cardiac arrest. Even during a pandemic, the care of patients in our healthcare facilities must continue. Resuscitation is especially challenging in the presence of or the assumption of COVID-19. This article from the ACLS Training Center pulls together the recommendations of some of the top experts in resuscitation and infection control in the world. -
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Long-haulers are fighting for their future
Patient-Safety-Learning posted an article in Coronavirus (COVID-19)
This article by Ed Yong discusses the impact of Long Covid on patients and how for both unvaccinated and vaccinated people, is one of the pandemic’s biggest and least-addressed unknowns. -
Content ArticleThis report, Long COVID and speech and language therapy, looks at the mid to long-term speech and language therapy needs of people with Long COVID, the impact these difficulties have on people’s lives and the essential role that speech and language therapy plays in supporting them. Published by the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (RCSLT), authors conclude: "The RCSLT firmly believes that any person with a communication or swallowing difficulty has a right to access high quality speech and language therapy when and where they need it. Any person with such needs after COVID-19 must receive timely, individual, person-centred rehabilitation, which will support and maximise their mental health and wellbeing, participation in society, and ability to return to work." To achieve this, the report sets out a number of recommendations at national, system and workforce levels. They also set out recommendations for raising awareness to the wider public.
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Content ArticleThis article describes a report on Long Covid and speech and language therapy. The report has recently been published by the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists with the research being conducted to gather insights into working with people with Long Covid between February 2020 and March 2021. Some key findings include: negative impact on mental health and wellbeing, an impact on a person's ability to complete daily tasks and activities, and a significant variation in the number of people referred to speech and language therapy.
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Should HR be worried about Long Covid? (28 January 2021)
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Blogs
With 1 in 10 people with coronavirus still have debilitating symptoms six months on, people professionals will need to keep sickness policies and return to work front of mind writes Elizabeth Howlett in this article for People Management. -
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More than a million people in the UK are now living with prolonged symptoms of Covid-19,[1] also referred to as Long Covid, including at least 122,000 NHS staff.[2] With many struggling to come to terms with life-changing health challenges, Long Covid is considered by some to be the next pandemic. Good health information has the power to educate, influence and clarify; all of which are critical to effectively responding to public health crises and keeping patients safe. But the absence of good information can leave patients, staff and the wider public feeling confused and unsupported, and can widen health inequalities. In this blog, Patient Safety Learning has identified four key areas where better information could help improve care for those living with Long Covid: Symptoms of Long Covid Long Covid assessment centres Education and awareness Performance and effectiveness. -
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How will NHS staff with Long Covid be supported?
PatientSafetyLearning Team posted an article in Blogs
In this interview, Patient Safety Learning speaks to Asad Khan, a doctor who has been suffering with persistent symptoms of Covid-19 for more than six months. This is also commonly referred to as Long Covid. Asad highlights the pressing need for frontline staff with Long Covid to be better supported moving forward, in order to keep everyone safe from harm.- Posted
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Content ArticleIn March 2021 the advocacy group LongCovidSOS launched a survey in partnership with the University of Exeter and University of Kent to find out how people with Long Covid respond to COVID-19 vaccines. The analysis, which is yet to be peer reviewed showed that 56.7% of respondents experienced an overall improvement in symptoms, with 24.6% remaining unchanged and 18.7% reporting a deterioration in their symptoms. In general, those who received mRNA vaccines (Pfizer/BioNTech or Moderna) reported more improvements in symptoms, compared with those who got an adenovirus vaccine (Oxford/AstraZeneca). In particular, those who received the Moderna vaccine were more likely to see improvements in symptoms such as fatigue, brain fog and muscle pain, and less likely to report a deterioration, the analysis found.
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The cost of Long Covid (File on 4, 18 May 2021)
PatientSafetyLearning Team posted an article in Patient recovery
Latest figures show more than a million people in Britain are suffering from Long Covid. For many the condition is completely debilitating. The extreme fatigue, breathing difficulties, brain-fog is forcing hundreds of thousands of previously fit, working people on to long term sick. File on 4 hears from frontline workers who kept Britain going through the pandemic but now feel abandoned. Others reveal how they’ve felt pressurised to return to work even though they’re very ill. Listen hereFurther reading that may be of interest:Long Covid Minister needed to respond to growing crisis Promises of Long Covid support have not materialised (a blog by Clare Rayner)My experience of suspected 'Long COVID' (by Dr Jake Suett) -
Content ArticleSymptoms involving almost every organ system have been reported after SARS-CoV-2 infection. Estimates of the prevalence of long covid (also called post-covid-19 condition, post-acute sequelae of covid-19, or chronic covid syndrome) vary considerably, partly because of confusion around the definition. The term long covid encompasses a broad range of symptoms, including objective complications of covid-19 (pulmonary fibrosis, myocardial dysfunction), mental health conditions, and more subjective, non-specific symptoms resembling those seen in post-viral chronic fatigue syndrome (myalgic encephalomyelitis). Most studies to date have substantial limitations, including small cohorts, absence of control groups, non-standardised capture of symptoms, lack of correction for pre-existing medical conditions, participant reported infection, and variation in follow-up, as well as selection, non-response, misclassification, and recall biases. In children and adolescents, acute Covid-19 is less severe than in adults. Concern among many parents has therefore focused more on the potential long term effects of SARS-CoV-2 infection. Unfortunately, fewer data are available on long covid in young people compared with adults.
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Content ArticleThese resources from Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh were developed following a study funded by the Chief Scientist Office in Scotland. The study was based on an online survey which people completed between July and August 2020, followed by a further survey six months later. Some participants also took part in a telephone interview to enhance understanding of their responses. The study used the responses of people living with Long Covid to: develop a resource with advice for people accessing services for Long Covid. write guidance for people providing services relevant to people with Long Covid. write recommendations to inform policy and service design that relate to Long Covid and other impacts of the pandemic. plan a series of short podcasts, interviewing people who have lived experience of Long Covid.
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Content Article'Support after Covid-19' is a series of short podcasts exploring Long Covid and work. It was developed by Professor Cathy Bulley and Dr Eleanor Curnow at Queen Margaret University in response to research insights from the ‘Support After Covid Study,’ which was carried out between May 2020 and June 2021. It focuses on the experiences of people working in health services who are living with Long Covid, offering resources, insight and advice.
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Post-COVID syndrome symptoms, functional disability, and clinical severity phenotypes in hospitalized and nonhospitalized individuals: A cross-sectional evaluation from a community COVID rehabilitation service (15 November 2021)
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Data, research and statistics
There is currently limited information on clinical severity phenotypes of symptoms and functional disability in post-coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID) Syndrome (PCS). A370 PCS patients from a dedicated community COVID-19 rehabilitation service was assessed using the COVID-19 Yorkshire Rehabilitation Scale where each symptom or functional difficulty was scored on a 0–10 Likert scale and also compared with before infection. Phenotypes based on symptom severity were extracted to identify any noticeable patterns. The correlation between symptom severity, functional disability, and overall health was explored.
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