Long Covid

Long Covid

NHS help for you

There are already specialist Long Covid clinics in NHS England, to which you can be referred by your GP. 

Ensure fully funded and staffed
NHS Long Covid Clinics
in all UK nations. 

Ensure GPs are fully funded. 

GP to first give blood tests 
to see if you are suffering
under active Thyroid,
as symptoms are very similar. 


DISABILITY AND LONG COVID 

  • Recognise Long Covid as chronic (life-long) disability. 
  • Grant full 100 per cent Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit as Life Award to sufferers of Long Covid from initial NHS doctor's diagnosis. 
  • Doctors, Nurses, supermarket workers, and paid carers are within Works pension age 50 for manual workers, including the tax free up to 25 per cent cashing in of works / private pension pots, in Fron Infants to Over 50s party pension policies. 

  • Teachers are within early works pension age 50 back, including the tax free cashing in up to 25 per cent of works / private pension pots, from Over 50s party's pension policies. 

  • Age 50 age-related higher income tax allowance of £3,000 allowance above your basic income tax allowance. 
  • End of Work Capability Assessment system as disability is granted as Life Awards from initial NHS doctor's diagnosis. 
  • Works Pensions revert to Final Salary pension systems. 

Background 
From a petition from NHS nurses:

Long Covid leaves victims with serious health issues, ranging from:
  • heart problems,
  • loss of hearing, 
  • neurological (brain) damage and more. 

None of the Long Covid sufferers are guaranteed benefits or ill-health retirement. 

Long Covid is not even classed as a disability.


HEALTH AND SAFETY FOR HEALTHCARE STAFF IN AIRBORNE PANDEMICs 

PPE AVAILABILITY 
  • Look into 3D printing direct by NHS of protective hoods from airborne ailments, of NHS hospital staff, so no more private provision in NHS. 

Background - Southampton hospital designed such a hood that could be used beyond pandemic use (The PeRSo hood is now certified for all use as PPE by the British Standard Institute).



AN EXAMPLE OF PEOPLE SUFFERING LONG COVID IN UK 
From Statista, chart, of UK level of people suffering Long Covid up to April 2022

Kind of age and gender of people with Long Covid

Information from government's Office of National Statistics, release date 6 May 2022

  • As a proportion of the UK population,
    prevalence of self-reported long COVID was greatest in:

      •  people aged 35 to 49 years, 
      • females, 
      • people living in more deprived areas, 
      • those working in social care, teaching and education or health care, and 
      • those with another activity-limiting health condition or disability.


How Many Long Covid Sufferers?

An estimated 1.8 million people living in private households in the UK (2.8% of the population) were experiencing self-reported long COVID as of 3 April 2022.  

  • Long Covid is symptoms persisting for more than four weeks after the first suspected coronavirus (COVID-19) infection that were not explained by something else) 

  • Of people with self-reported long COVID - 

      • 382,000 (21%) first had (or suspected they had) COVID-19 less than 12 weeks previously, 

      • 1.3 million people (73%) at least 12 weeks previously,

      • 791,000 (44%) at least one year previously and 

      • 235,000 (13%) at least two years previously.


  • Long COVID symptoms adversely affected the
    day-to-day activities of :
      • 1.2 million people
        (67% of those with self-reported long COVID), 
      • with 346,000 (19%) reporting that their ability to undertake their day-to-day activities had been "limited a lot".

  • Fatigue continued to be the most common symptom reported as part of individuals' experience of long COVID (51% of those with self-reported long COVID),
    • followed by shortness of breath (33%), 
    • loss of sense of smell (26%), and 
    • difficulty concentrating (23%).

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