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Content ArticlePoster from World Physiotherapy for World Physiotherapy Day 2021 highlighting the symptoms of Long Covid similar to ME/chronic fatigue syndrome which can worsen with exertion.
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EventuntilThis Westminster Forum is an opportunity to discuss the implementation of the NHS Long COVID plan for 2021/22, how to utilise funding set out for the expansion of services and management of Long COVID within primary care, the future outlook for Long COVID research, and the impact of new NIHR-funded projects. Key areas for discussion include: delivery of the Long COVID Plan and the utilisation of allocated funding priority areas for research to further improve understanding of Long COVID and the effectiveness of services developed for the condition care pathways within local health systems - leadership, implementation and commissioning, service development, rehabilitation, the impact of health inequalities, and integrating care Long COVID assessment clinics: - assessing progress and what more is needed to improve accessibility and support referrals from primary care - priorities for the development of services for children support for the health workforce - training and education priorities and sharing best practice in Long COVID care utilising data - scaling up its use and improving understanding of Long COVID and its prevalence involving patients - the development of Long COVID services, driving awareness of expanded online support, and improving equal accessibility to information. Agenda Register
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Long Covid Support: Information leaflet
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Resources for patients
Long Covid can be difficult to diagnose, and some people might not realise their symptoms could be linked to prior COVID-19 infection. There can be more than 200 symptoms. Symptoms can affect anywhere in the body. Symptoms can come and go, and new ones can appear weeks or months later. People may not be aware they had Covid-19: some don’t have symptoms at the time of infection, and test results can be unreliable. Long Covid Support and Long Covid Kids have produced an information leaflet on the symptoms of Long Covid. -
Content Article“As someone living with Long Covid…you want somebody to believe what you're going through.” Davine Forde National Voices held their event, Long Covid webinar event: A community-focused response, where they were joined by Davine Forde (Manchester BME Network CIC), Claire Hastie (Long Covid Support), Michael MacLennan (covid:aid) and Sammie Mcfarland (Long Covid Kids) in an enlightening panel discussion, focusing on the depth and breadth of dedication within the Long Covid community space. National Voices colleagues, Rachel Matthews (Head of Experience) and Keymn Whervin (Lived Experience Associate), also joined the event and spoke about the importance of getting people with lived experience in the room and at the heart of decision-making. Their focus on co-production highlighted a fantastic opportunity to harness the resourcefulness within our communities by working with people throughout decision-making processes.
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Content ArticleEpisode 09 of the Long Covid Podcast is a conversation with Claire Hastie. Claire became ill with Covid right at the start of the first wave in the UK and like so many others, is still suffering the effects of Long Covid. She started the Long Covid Support Group on Facebook in early May 2020. Claire talks about her experiences, how the group came to be and what they are fighting for.
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Content ArticleFinding solutions to long covid will require new ways of thinking across clinical services and research, says in this BMJ Opinion article.
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Content ArticleThis briefing paper by World Physiotherapy provides guidance to enable physiotherapists to offer safe and effective rehabilitation in people living with Long Covid.
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Content ArticleIn this blog for The BMJ, several doctors who are experiencing long term impacts of Covid-19 share their report of a meeting with the World Health Organization's Covid-19 response team in August 2020. They highlighted the importance of patient-led research and and engaging with patients with Long Covid.
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Content ArticleThis article, published in the Enhanced Recovery After Surgery e-book, explores the multimodal approach to improve overall patient recovery after surgery. The idea of implementing specific interventions throughout the perioperative period to improve patient recovery has been proven to be beneficial. Whereas many approaches to enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) implementation may seem straightforward, careful advanced planning, multiple stakeholder involvement, and addressing other contextual constraints are needed if there is to be improvement.
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Content ArticleThis short animation from SameYou, a charity working to develop better recovery treatment for survivors of brain injury and stroke, highlights the stories of survivors of brain injury and stroke. It is linked with their report, The Untold Story of Brain Injury.
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Content ArticleThis report from SameYou, a charity working to develop better recovery treatment for survivors of brain injury and stroke, draws on the experiences of over 1,400 survivors of brain injury and stroke, as well as the experiences of their friends and family members. It highlights the lack of support for survivors and recommends some ways forward to improve outcomes.
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EventuntilDuring the COVID-19 pandemic, partnership and collaboration between the NHS, patient and community organisations, and the life-sciences sector has been vital in enabling the system to adapt quickly and effectively to new challenges. This free online event will explore how this approach can be embedded to support system recovery and enable transformation, particularly where COVID-19 has led to significant disruption of services for people with long-term conditions. It will identify the challenges and opportunities people with long-term conditions face in securing good-quality, person-centred care, as well as the role of innovation in supporting early intervention, ensuring access to care in the right place at the right time and reducing pressures on hospital services. Register
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Long Covid: A community-focused response
Sam posted an event in Community Calendar
untilWe’re no longer in a national lockdown and life feels as though it is slowly getting back to normal, but for those who contracted COVID-19 and are still living with the debilitating consequences of the virus, the battle is far from won. With almost 400,000 UK adults experiencing the prevailing symptoms of COVID-19 over a year after first contracting the virus, Long Covid continues to remain on the agenda as a pressing and pertinent issue. This webinar from National Voices explores a person-centred response to Long Covid. This webinar event emerges as a sub-section of National Voices’ larger programme of work commissioned by NHSE/I, working alongside six VCSE organisations who support members of the community at risk of exclusion. During this event we will be joined by Michael MacLennan of covid:aid, Claire Hastie of Long Covid Support, Sammie Mcfarland of Long Covid Kids, and Davine Forde, a Lived Experience Associate from Manchester Health & Care Commissioning. They will engage in a panel discussion, sharing the lived experiences of those with Long Covid and shining a light on the crucial work that community-based organisations are doing to alleviate the burden on health services in response to Long Covid. Rachel Matthews, our Head of Experience, and Keymn Whervin, our Lived Experience Associate, will also examine the impact of implementing strategic co-production in working with lived experience leaders, uncovered through their Voices for Improvement project at National Voices. Discussions will be followed by a Q&A session with questions invited from attendees. Register -
Content ArticleThis systematic review published in BMJ Global Health looks to identify the nature, frequency and causes of long-COVID symptoms by reviewing data from existing research studies into long-COVID. It aims to regularly synthesise evidence on long-COVID characteristics to help improve long-term outcomes. From the data provided by 39 studies, the review found that: long-COVID affects both patients who were hospitalised and those managed in the community patients with long-COVID display a wide range of symptoms including weakness, general malaise, fatigue, concentration impairment and breathlessness research currently available on long-COVID is vulnerable to bias, so caution should be used when interpreting data. The authors also identify areas where further research is needed to help define long-COVID symptoms, identify risk factors for different populations and assess the impact of variants of concern and vaccination on long-term outcomes.
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Content ArticleIn this blog, PC Barry Calder, Lead of the Metropolitan Police Service Disability Staff Association COVID Peer Support Group, raises concerns about the potential impact of long COVID on staff and organisations. He highlights that organisations can take proactive steps to mitigate the consequences of staff being affected by long COVID, such as staff absences and changes to job roles. He recommends that organisations: introduce regular contingency planning activities (such as COVID Resilience meetings) ensure managers are trained to support staff living with long COVID ensure occupational health and staff wellbeing services include support relevant to long COVID consider establishing peer support groups for affected staff.
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Content ArticleThis leaflet produced by Clare Rayner for The PACS (Post-Acute Covid Syndrome) International Working Group provides information for patients on diagnosing Covid-19 without a positive swab test.
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Content ArticleThe Children and young people with Long COVID (CLoCk) study is the largest study to date of children and young people in the world. It aims to describe how children and young people are affected by post-COVID physical symptoms and mental health problems and to identify those most at risk. The CLoCk study is led by UCL and Public Health England and involves collaboration with researchers at the universities of Edinburgh, Bristol, Oxford, Cambridge, Liverpool, Leicester, Manchester as well as King’s College London, Imperial College London, Public Health England, Great Ormond Street Hospital and University College London Hospitals (UCLH).
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News ArticleScotland's Health Secretary Humza Yousaf says the NHS is facing the "biggest crisis" of its existence. There's a shortage of beds, the demand for ambulances is soaring and waits in accident and emergency departments are getting longer. On top of that, COVID-19 admissions have been rising fast as the number of infections in Scotland spiralled at the end of the summer. BBC News share five charts illustrating the enormous pressures currently being felt by NHS Scotland. Read full story Source: BBC News, 23 September 2021
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Long-haulers are fighting for their future (1 September 2021)
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Blogs
Many people with long COVID feel that science is failing them. Neglecting them could make the pandemic even worse, writes Ed Yong in this article for The Atlantic. -
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Post-illness symptoms like long Covid are probably more common than we think
Patient Safety Learning posted a news article in News
In recent months, long Covid has received a great deal of media and public attention. Research has found that as many as one in four of those infected with Covid suffer from chronic long-term symptoms, including headaches, dizziness, abdominal pain, heart problems, fatigue, anxiety, depression, cognitive impairment and other conditions. It is a difficult and complex illness, and we must do much more to help those who are struggling with it. At the same time, it is important to realise that rather than being a strange special case, long Covid is probably part of a broader phenomenon that affects many more people. In recent years, doctors and researchers have increasingly realised that many of those who survive an illness of any kind, or who go through serious physical trauma, are at high risk for a range of debilitating and chronic physical, cognitive and mental health symptoms – problems that closely resemble long Covid. As medicine has advanced, clinicians have learned how to save hundreds of thousands of severely ill or injured patients who would have previously died. Although this is a remarkable accomplishment, however, in many cases, survival does not mean complete recovery: some patients find that their bodies, brains and psyches continue to bear the scars of what they have gone through. One non-Covid study found that a year after hospitalisation, a third of patients with severe respiratory failure or shock had significant cognitive impairment. Another found that between a quarter and a third of patients who were treated in the ICU had significant and long-lasting symptoms of anxiety, depression or PTSD. Researchers have found similar results for survivors of other medical conditions, including cancer, multiple sclerosis and ALS. Unfortunately, people with long Covid, as well as other chronic post-illness symptoms, often find that the medical establishment doesn’t understand their experience, and so minimises or questions it. This is not surprising: clinicians tend to pay less attention to how patients with severe illness do once they are out of mortal danger, or once symptoms extend beyond an arbitrary time frame. Read full story Source: The Guardian, 12 September 2021 -
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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 ArticleDespite the effectiveness of total knee arthroplasty (TKA; knee replacement surgery), patients often have lingering pain and dysfunction. Recent studies have raised concerns that preoperative mental health may negatively affect outcomes after TKA. The primary aim of this study from Melnic et al. investigates the relationship between patient-reported mental health and postoperative physical function following TKA. The study found that poor mental health should not be a contraindication for performing TKA. For patients with the lowest mental health scores, physicians should account for the possibility that physical function scores may deteriorate a year after surgery. Tighter follow-up guidelines, more frequent physical therapy visits, or treatment for mental health issues may be considered to counter such deterioration.
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ACLS Training Centre: Resuscitation of COVID-19 patients (14 June 2021)
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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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University of Plymouth: Telerehab Toolkit
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Telemedicine
The Telerehab Toolkit is a patient and practitioner guide to remote appointments for people with movement impairment and disability.
