ELAROS host webinar on "Building a Long Covid Service: Episode 2"

On the 6th of November ELAROS hosted their second webinar in the ‘Building a  Long Covid Service Legacy’ series to aid NHS services to support patients in primary, community, and care at-home across a range of long-term conditions.

This webinar is our 5th international webinar focused on supporting clinics, researchers, and most importantly, patients, with Long Covid and follows a recent episode back in June which focuses on sharing case studies from Long Covid services to inspire ideas on how to adapt the current NHS Long Covid offer to support a wider patient community.

We were joined by three excellent speakers:

Our first speaker was Lorraine Perry, Practitioner and Service Lead of the ME/CFS and Post Covid Assessment Services at the Somerset NHS Foundation Trust. Lorraine presented the plans at Somerset to deliver an integrated service for ME/CFS and Long Covid, and how the proposed integrated clinical pathway would play out.

A second presentation was given by Jeremy Gee, from Airedale and Bradford NHS Trust. Jeremy shared some case studies which showcased how Airedale is adapting its Long Covid model approach to serve the wider community of people with long term conditions. Jeremy spoke specifically about the success of their self referral process, supported by ELAROS, and how it has led to improvements in referral rates in more deprived areas as well as addressing disparity in referral rates based on gender and ethnicity. 

Finally, Román Rocha Lawrence, Director of Research and Development at ELAROS, announced an invitation to English NHS Trusts to join a national service evaluation with The University of Leeds and the Clinical Post Covid Society and the launch of a standalone version of our C19-YRS app for the public.

Colleagues can contact us at c19-yrs@elaros.com to request access to the recording and slides from this webinar.

You can learn more about the speakers from the event below or on the teams page:

Lorraine Perry, Practitioner/Service Lead ME/CFS & Post Covid19 Assessment Services, Somerset NHS Foundation Trust

Jeremy Gee, Long Covid Clinical Pathway Co-ordinator and Community Advanced Practitioner, Airedale and Bradford NHS Foundation Trusts

Román Rocha Lawrence, Director of Research and Development at ELAROS 24/7, Honorary Research Fellow at The University of Leeds