Long Covid: ‘fraction’ of sufferers getting NHS help in England
by Carmen Aguilar García and Pamela Duncan from World news | The Guardian on (#655MN)
Only 60,000 of an estimated 277,000 people have been seen by specialist service, figures show
Just a fraction" of long Covid sufferers are getting the help they need, with a third of them waiting more than three and a half months to be assessed after a GP referral, rising to almost half in some areas.
More than 60,000 people in England had a first assessment for post-Covid syndrome in an NHS specialist service between July 2021 and August 2022.
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