Speaking at Connect Health’s Change webinar, a panel of experts raised concerns around the rehabilitation of patients recovering from COVID-19.
Sufferers of ‘Long Covid’ are being “dismissed and not listened to” and there is “no culture of rehabilitation in the UK”, they warned.
A panel of leading experts in the fields of general practice, rehabilitation, physiotherapy, and academia, joined Connect Health’s latest Change webinar on 11 November 2020, exploring Long COVID and questioning the challenges of treatment for patients.
Key themes from the session included the desperate need for integrated, multispecialty, multi-disciplinary care, the importance of acknowledging the sufferings of Long COVID patients who often have to “fight their way through the system” and working with patients to co-design services and support research
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