Post COVID Syndrome (Long COVID)...

News - 1 January 2024

Post COVID Syndrome (Long COVID) is a new and evolving syndrome that can greatly impact the health and quality of life of many people.
Coronavirus and people affected

The precise causes of Post COVID Syndrome (Long COVID) are not yet known and the recovery time varies for each individual. A report in 2022 by the Institute of Fiscal Studies estimated that the aggregate impact of the current prevalence and severity of the syndrome at national level was equivalent to 110,000 workers being off sick (IFS, July 2022). Evidence from other Healthwatch reports (Healthwatch Barnet and Healthwatch Barking & Dagenham, Havering and Redbridge, both 2022) and the Royal College of Nursing (RCN, 2022) indicates that treatment varies across the country, with long waits for specialist provision and disagreement about referral structures common.

Healthwatch Havering have been working with Public Health Havering and the Havering North Primary Care Network (PCN) to learn more about people's experiences of living with Long COVID and the support that they may have received since our last report.

Following a survey of people who are living with Long COVID, we have now produced a report setting out what they have told us about their experience.

Download the report from here

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