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Perspectives on Long COVID-19 and work – recording and literature

This is a recording of an online summit aiming to clarify dilemmas in clinical and non-clinical practice relating to Long COVID-19 and a complex new condition and place it in a societal context.  It covered:
  • What are the best current clinical approaches to improve functional capacity? ·
  • How can we link with the NHS offer, better? ·
  • What are current gaps in research? ·
  • What critical actions are now required?

Agenda

  • Welcome Professor Ewan Macdonald, OBE, University of Glasgow
  • Chair, President of the Society of Medicine Professor Anne Harriss
  • The size of the problem – why is Long Covid important?  Dr Nisreen Alwan, University of Southampton
  • What is long COVID?
    • Clinical perspectives from a multidisciplinary view – Dr Clare Rayner
    • Long Covid Support – Lesley MacNevin
    • A US perspective – Dr David Strain – BMA David Putrino – Mt Sinai, Head of Rehab –
  • Government and NHS offer Alex Norris, MP, Shadow Minister (Health and Social Care) Cathy Hassell, NHS E, and I Q and A
  • Perspectives on return to work with long COVID An Occupational Medicine perspective – Dr Tony Williams
  • Rehabilitation perspectives – Dr John Etherington
  • Physiotherapy perspectives – Colette Owen
  • VR perspectives on early intervention – Deborah Edwards, VRA Chair
  • What are the research gaps… and next steps? Panel discussion

Listen to the recording here.

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