Dr Charles Shepherd Hon Medical Adviser, ME Association @meassociation Three years ago nobody had heard of Long Covid – the patient derived name for a variety of symptoms and continuing ill health that may affect around 10% of people who catch COVID-19 and which persists for three months or more. The numbers are huge. Data from […]
Category: Long Covid
Supporting Children Living with Long Covid to Return to School in September
September is a time of new beginnings. It is often viewed as a fresh start; it marks the beginning of the academic year and can bring with it change and new challenges. This could include a new school, new teachers, new friendships, new routines and new expectations. As well as offering new opportunities, change can […]
Long Covid: The price of risking one’s life to save others?
During the Covid pandemic NHS staff have worked to save other people’s lives knowing there was a real risk of catching Covid themselves. Front line staff such as nurses, midwives, doctors and healthcare assistants were especially at risk. Hundreds have died as a result and many thousands left with Long Covid. Many infected staff recover, […]
Summer Holidays with Long Covid Kids
For many children and young people living with Long Covid, the challenge of balancing the demands of education alongside a long term health condition is pausing, with the start of the school summer holidays across the country. The Long Covid Kids Charity shares guidance below for nurses and other parents of children and young people […]
Is a lack of knowledge about Long-COVID a reason to dodge people’s needs?
Worldwide, the introduction of vaccines has led many governments to downgrade the severity and risks of COVID-19, but their enthusiasm to clutch at a ‘return to normal’ agenda has led them to neglect a serious health and economic concern – the impact of, and risks linked to Long-COVID. Long-COVID is a multi-system condition associated with […]
Disability: It’s Not What You Think It Is
Cass Macdonald, a nurse from Scotland, writes about working as a disabled person in the NHS and how ableism impacts those with protected characteristics. As more NHS staff are affected by Long Covid, ableist discrimination is likely to become a real issue. Thanks for Alexander Hardy’s assistance in framing this post. Cass is on Twitter […]
The rise and fall of our NHS heroes
The current Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the impact of the health care staffing crisis. As of June 2021, there were 38,952 registered nurse vacancies across the health service in England. In addition, nurses are the largest occupational group impacted by Long Covid. Given this, you might imagine appropriate support would be in place to support these colleagues to return to […]
Support for Health Care Professionals with Long Covid returning to work: A national disgrace
Alison Twycross – Editor-in-Chief of Evidence-Based Nursing Journal (@alitwy) Just over a year ago @jakesuett and I wrote a Blog titled: Health Care Professionals with Long Covid: Have they been forgotten? Very little has changed since. Long Covid is a new disease which we know relatively little about. However, we do know that: Long Covid […]