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Content ArticleThis practice pointer in The BMJ provides an update on treating Long Covid in primary care and outlines how healthcare professionals might respond to questions that patients ask about the condition. The article provides information on: Definition of Long Covid Epidemiology Symptoms and case definition Questions patients ask Further resources for patients and healthcare professionals
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Content ArticleLong Covid is politically problematic, medically uncertain, and personally scary. It is too easy to look away. In media narratives this summer the Covid-19 pandemic was eclipsed by the cost of living and climate crises. But in practice these crises co-exist and interact. Long Covid makes heatwaves and price hikes a whole lot harder to bear. Jo Maybin was healthy, triple vaxed, and had been down with Long Covid since February 2022. In this blog for The King's Fund, Jo describes how she feels and asks you not to look away from Long Covid, this ‘mass disabling event’, which is affecting 2 million people in the UK, and will likely have a direct impact on hundreds of thousands more this winter.
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EventuntilConnect Health “Change” has developed a series of webinars to make and embed transformation in healthcare. Aimed at system leaders and clinicians across the NHS, the webinars provide practical solutions to the challenging issues we are all grappling with. As the lasting effects of COVID-19 emerge from the near overwhelming demands on the acute services, the need for long term support and rehabilitation for survivors is becoming increasingly clear. But the how is still very much a matter up for debate. This webinar is a must for anyone involved in the design, delivery and commissioning of post COVID rehabilitation/ community services as well as those involved in public and population-health . The webinar will explore: Are traditional community services set up to provide COVID rehab? Or, is there a need for specialist services to focus on supporting COVID recovery? Who are the best clinicians to provide rehab to COVID patients? How we approach COVID rehab from a commissioning perspective? Registration
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EventThere is growing concern that a significant number of COVID-19 patients continue to experience persistent physical and mental symptoms weeks and months after first contracting the virus. Chaired by RSM President Professor Roger Kirby, this webinar will tackle the topic of ‘Long COVID’, hearing insights from Dr Alastair Miller, Deputy Medical Director at the JRCPTB, Dr Nisreen Alwan, Associate Professor in Public Health at the University of Southampton and Long COVID sufferer, and Dr Carolyn Chew-Graham, GP Principal in Central Manchester and Professor of General Practice Research at Keele University. The panel will look at the symptoms and diagnosis of Long COVID, discuss current research and evidence, hear experiences of living with Long COVID, and ask what needs to be done to manage this significant healthcare concern. The webinar will include plenty of opportunities for questions. All views expressed in this webinar are of the speakers themselves and not of The RSM. Please note this webinar will be recorded and stored by The RSM and may be used in the future on various internet channels. Registration
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Content ArticleIn this blog, Patient Safety Learning reflects on the recent steps taken by the healthcare system in the UK to increase provision and support for people living with Long COVID. It then goes on to consider the importance of engagement and information sharing with patients, outlining suggestions where Patient Safety Learning feel the current NHS approach could be improved.
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Many people are experiencing health difficulties for several months after they have been infected with COVID-19. There is work underway to make sure healthcare staff have more information about the longer-term effects of COVID-19 and how to look after these patients safely. This is due to be published by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) at the end of this year. -
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Post Covid Syndrome
PatientSafetyLearning Team posted an article in Patient recovery
This is an online platform and information portal for post covid syndrome (also known as Long Haul Covid, Long Tail Covid and Long Covid). It has been designed to be a central point for patients, practitioners and researchers globally. -
Content ArticleLecture presentation slides from Professor Carl Philpot, University of East Anglia, on losing your sense of smell with coronavirus.
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Content ArticleThe National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is developing the COVID-19 guideline: management of the long-term effects of COVID-19 and has published the final scoping document and associated project papers. The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) has produced a summary and included some top tips to aid the care of your patients whilst waiting for the national guidance to be produced.
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Content ArticleNHS Commissioning guidance to assist local healthcare systems to establish post-COVID assessment clinics for patients experiencing long-term health effects following COVID-19 infection.
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Your COVID recovery guidance (6 November 2020)
PatientSafetyLearning Team posted an article in Patient recovery
This NHS document outlines new guidance on accessing and referring into the digital COVID-19 rehabilitation programme, Your COVID Recovery. -
Content ArticleCOVID-19 survivors Fiona Lowenstein and Nikki Brueggeman share their experiences with the disease and how they navigated the healthcare system during the pandemic, and how they were inspired to become advocates for others.
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The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), is developing the COVID-19 guideline: management of the long-term effects of COVID-19. The final scoping document and associated project papers are now available. -
Content ArticleThis statement has been developed and signed by several long COVID patient groups. It outlines a number of their concerns regarding approaches to treatment, in particular, the fear that psychological treatments will be favoured over clinical investigation.
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Content ArticleThere is evidence that COVID-19 may cause long term health changes past acute symptoms, termed ‘long COVID’. This paper includes detailed cognitive assessment and questionnaire data from tens thousands of datasets, collected in collaboration with BBC2 Horizon, which align with the view that there are chronic cognitive consequences of having COVID-19. This article, published by medRxiv, is a preprint and has not been peer-reviewed. It reports new medical research that has yet to be evaluated and so should not be used to guide clinical practice.
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Content Articlein recent months we’ve seen increasing attention paid to people with ‘long COVID’, whose symptoms were not serious enough to land them in hospital yet have persisted for many weeks or months. This long-term illness is frustrating and debilitating for those who are affected, with the potential to have a significant impact on wider society. But it hasn’t been clear how many people are suffering from long COVID or who is most at risk. The latest analysis of data from thousands of users of the COVID Symptom Study app from ZOE, published as a preprint, shows that one in 20 people are likely to suffer from COVID-19 symptoms lasting more than 8 weeks.
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Content ArticleThe past several months have shown that most people hospitalized with COVID-19 will get better. As inspiring as it is to see these patients breathe on their own and converse with their loved ones again, we are learning that many will leave the hospital still quite ill and in need of further care. But little has been published to offer a detailed demographic picture of those being discharged from our nation’s hospitals and the types of community-based care and monitoring that will be needed to keep them on the road to recovery. Dr. Francis Collins takes a look at the current research.
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Content ArticlePost-intensive care syndrome (PICS) is a nonspecific syndrome that results from physical, mental, and emotional stresses associated with critical illness and treatment in intensive care units (ICUs). Common features include neuromuscular weakness from immobility, cognitive impairment from sedation, and anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress syndrome (PTSD), and, as we are learning, additional sequelae for COVID-19 survivors. Symptoms can manifest or persist weeks, months, or years after patient discharge. This eBook from ECRI provides an overview of PICS, the common danger signs health providers and family members should be able to identify, and its potential long term negative effects. Learn about strategies like creating an ICU diary to help mitigate risks, in addition to understanding other recommendations to consider to protect the safety and well-being of patients during their recovery.
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Content ArticleReports of 'Long-COVID' are rising but little is known about prevalence, risk factors, or whether it is possible to predict a protracted course early in the disease.
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Long COVID film: Hands. Face. Space.
PatientSafetyLearning Team posted an article in Patient recovery
This short film, produced by the Department of Health and Social Care, highlights the persisting symptoms many are experiencing following a COVID-19 infection. It includes patients of varying ages talking about the health struggles they continue to face months after contracting the virus. They urge viewers to take precautions to keep everyone safe. -
Content ArticlePatient Safety Movement's Dr Donna Prosser is joined by Dr Steven Deeks, Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, and Dr Jake Suett, Staff Grade Anaesthetist and Intensive Care Doctor, UUK, to discuss the long term implications of COVID-19 from clinical and personal perspectives. Dr Deeks shares the research around long COVID-19 symptoms and Dr Suett provides a personal anecdote of his experience with symptoms that have lasted months. Dr. Suett shares information about the COVID symptom study, which consists of an international mobile app to track COVID-19 symptoms over time.
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Ms Cath Rennie, ENT Consultant Surgeon, and Lizzie Bullock, Rhinology Clinical Nurse Specialist, discuss Post Viral Olfactory Loss, COVID-19 and the impact it has on smell and taste. Lizzie shares her personal experiences and talks with Cath about medical treatments, access to care and self-management tools. Fifth Sense are hosting a programme of online conversations and webinars on a range of topics to support people affected by smell and taste disorders. -
Content ArticleThe COVID-19 pandemic has had far-reaching effects upon people’s lives, health care systems and wider society. As yet there is little research into the number of people at risk of developing ongoing COVID-19. Early attention has been on the acute illness generated by the virus, but it is becoming clear that, for some people,COVID-19 infection is a long term illness. This rapid and dynamic review authored by Dr Elaine Maxwell draws on the lived experience of patients and expert consensus as well as published evidence to better understand the impact of ongoing effects of COVID19, how health and social care services should respond, and what future research questions might be.
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Content ArticleIn this letter, Jeremy Hunt, Chair of the Health and Social Care Committee, welcomes recent announcements regarding future support for Long COVID patients but raises a number of continuing concerns. Hunt makes several calls for action, as the number of people suffering continues to increase.
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Content ArticleApproximately 10% of patients with COVID-19 experience symptoms beyond 3–4 weeks. Patients call this 'long covid'. Greenhalgh et al. sought to document the lived experience of such patients, their accounts of accessing and receiving healthcare, and their ideas for improving services. They held 55 individual interviews and 8 focus groups with people recruited from UK-based long Covid patient support groups, social media and snowballing. Participants were invited to tell their personal stories and comment on other stories.
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