February 2023
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This conference discussed the future for long COVID research, services and care.
It was an opportunity to assess Long COVID: the NHS plan for improving long COVID services and how its ambitions around patient experience, outcomes and access to services can be achieved.
Further sessions examined priorities for research and understanding of long COVID, looking at implementing the latest developments to improve services, and the long-term health implications of long COVID.
We also expected discussion on addressing concerns around inequalities, capacity and wait times for long COVID services, as well as the primary care referral system, and utilisation of investment.
Sessions in the agenda included:
- latest developments: trends - key issues - assessing the NHS plan for improving long COVID services
- clinical research:
- taking understanding of long COVID forward - advancing clinical trials - utilising data - funding and investment
- improving patient outcomes, prediction and prevention - accelerating the development of effective treatments - areas for focus, such as cardiology
- examining the increased risk of long-term health conditions and impacts of reinfection for long COVID patients
- improving specialist long COVID services:
- progress made so far and priorities moving forward
- options for increasing capacity - addressing inequalities in provision, access to services and information - applying latest developments from research
- children’s long COVID services: assessing delivery - implications for child development and attainment
- primary care: tackling key challenges for diagnosis and referral
- the workforce: priorities for education and training - support for long COVID patients in the workforce
We are pleased to have been able to include keynote sessions with: Dr Melissa Heightman, National Specialty Advisor, Long COVID Programme, NHS England; Professor Paul Dark, Deputy Medical Director, NIHR Clinical Research Network; Sammie Mcfarland, Founder, Long COVID Kids; Dr Daniel Munblit, Co-Investigator, Long COVID Core Outcome Set (LC-COS) project; Professor Carolyn Chew-Graham, GP Principal, Central Manchester and Professor of General Practice Research, Keele University; Alison Twycross, Founder, Long Covid Nurses and Midwives UK; and Professor Daniel Altmann, Department of Immunology and Inflammation, Imperial College London.
The conference was an opportunity for stakeholders to consider the issues alongside key policy officials who attended from the DHSC; DLUHC; the DWP; HMPPS; the Houses of the Oireachtas; MHRA; ONS; Senedd Cymru; The Scottish Government; and the Welsh Government.
