Coronavirus: Health Services
(asked on 11th February 2021) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support research on the treatment of long covid.
This question was answered on 26th February 2021
The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) have invested £8.4 million in the post-hospitalisation COVID-19 study (PHOSP-COVID) at Leicester University.
On 12 November 2020, the NIHR and UKRI announced joint funding for research into the long-term physical and mental health effects of COVID-19 in non-hospitalised people. Successful projects will be announced shortly.