Northampton General Hospital and Kettering General Hospital offering help for county's 20,000 long Covid sufferers An estimated 20,000 people in Northamptonshire suffering from long Covid can get a virtual helping hand from hospital medics later this month.
According to the NHS, debilitating Covid symptoms can linger for months after the virus has gone. Northamptonshire Telegraph
Back to the future? What we can learn from the history of integrated paediatric care in England The integration of NHS children and young people’s services has often gained ground before faltering over the last 70 years, but there is now renewed ambition on it. So what can we learn from the history of integrated paediatric care in England? Nuffield Trust
Severe Covid can cause brain function damage ‘equivalent to losing 10 IQ points’ The cognitive impairment suffered by patients with a severe bout of Covid-19 is the equivalent of losing 10 IQ points, a new study has found.
According to scientists from the University of Cambridge and Imperial College London, the cognitive loss is similar to ageing two decades, between 50 and 70 years of age. The Independent
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GPs face ‘appalling and systemic’ racism forcing doctors to leave and putting patients’ health ‘at risk’ GPs face “appalling and systemic” racism from patients and colleagues, a leaked NHS report has revealed.
The first Health Education England report for London of its kind says racism and discrimination are widespread within primary care across the capital, and GPs in other parts of the country have raised similar concerns. The Independent
