Learning from long COVID: integrated care for multiple long-term conditions 2023 van der Feltz-Cornelis et al

Long COVID is a multisystem condition requiring a range of medical, therapeutic, and psychological inputs. Given the complexity of the illness affecting multiple organ systems, often impacting physical and mental health, individuals can be heavy healthcare users across primary, secondary, and emergency services.

The long COVID clinics commissioned in England1 have provided an opportunity to innovate within a complex care pathway, bringing multiple providers together to meet needs broader than has been historically possible for many other complex conditions. Designing these new services from a blank page has enabled teams to co-create services with patient groups and work more effectively in an integrated way. Significant benefits have been seen, including skills transference between professions.

Open access, https://bjgp.org/content/73/730/196

 

Because Feltz-Cornelis is an established FND researcher?

 

The LC clinics are still widely known to be a complete joke, useless for the most part, ignorant and harmful at worst.

And they're freaking praising themselves over it. What a complete joke this profession can be at times. Just completely detached from reality.

And they're even showing in this... paper? I guess?... that they haven't actually learned a damn thing. Not a single thing. And they're singing their own praise here. What a freaking nightmare.

 

Realistically, I can't imagine there are too many sub-specialty physicians, surgeons, anaesthetists etc who would claim adequate mental health expertise. Psychiatrists do train in and maintain competency in physical medicine, though presumably to varying degrees.

Surely this set of recommendations could only be satisfied by mental health specialists in charge at all levels: national through regional?