Independent Expert Panel on effective ways of investing in health publishes opinion on the impact of the post-COVID-19 condition (long COVID) on health systems

Independent Expert Panel on effective ways of investing in health publishes opinion on the impact of the post-COVID-19 condition (long COVID) on health systems: collegamento 

 

(...) The recommendations of the expert panel put an emphasis on research, including patient involvement, potential treatments, and the need to embed research on long COVID at all levels of care, including rehabilitation. Other recommendations call for continued efforts to reduce the transmission of COVID-19 (e.g. through vaccination), investment in primary care, specialised training and establishing surveillance systems to track the epidemiology of long COVID.

Organisational and resource requirements for healthcare systems to design and develop appropriate health services for long COVID are discussed with a focus on implications for the health workforce, preventing long COVID among essential workers and supporting health workers with long COVID. The opinion considers models of care for patients with long COVID, including service delivery, health workforce, health information systems, access to essential medicines, financing, leadership and governance. (...)