Coronavirus: Hospitals

(asked on 18th January 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 13 January 2021 to Question 134007, what discussions he has had with NHS England, NHS trusts and foundation trusts and organisations providing outsourced services in hospitals on support for staff affected by (a) long covid and (b) other longer-term health complications arising from covid-19.


Answered by
Nadine Dorries Portrait
Nadine Dorries
This question was answered on 29th January 2021

The Department is currently working to clarify how National Health Service staff will be supported when their COVID-19 illness becomes long-term, and as part of this is consulting stakeholders.

COVID-19 is a new disease and therefore it is not clear what the medical, psychological and rehabilitation needs will be for those experiencing long-term effects of the virus.

NHS England and NHS Improvement have provided a £10 million investment package to support people with ‘long’ COVID-19. As part of the investment, 69 post COVID-19 assessment service centres are operational across England. A further 12 ‘long’ COVID-19 assessment centres are expected to be available shortly.

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