Personnel Today
  • Home
    • All PT content
  • Email sign-up
  • Topics
    • HR Practice
    • Employee relations
    • Learning & training
    • Pay & benefits
    • Wellbeing
    • Recruitment & retention
    • HR strategy
    • HR Tech
    • The HR profession
    • Global
    • All HR topics
  • Legal
    • Case law
    • Commentary
    • Flexible working
    • Legal timetable
    • Maternity & paternity
    • Shared parental leave
    • Redundancy
    • TUPE
    • Disciplinary and grievances
    • Employer’s guides
  • AWARDS
    • Personnel Today Awards
    • The RAD Awards
  • Jobs
    • Find a job
    • Jobs by email
    • Careers advice
    • Post a job
  • Brightmine
    • Learn more
    • Products
    • Free trial
    • Request a quote
  • Webinars
  • Advertise
  • OHW+

Personnel Today

Register
Log in
Personnel Today
  • Home
    • All PT content
  • Email sign-up
  • Topics
    • HR Practice
    • Employee relations
    • Learning & training
    • Pay & benefits
    • Wellbeing
    • Recruitment & retention
    • HR strategy
    • HR Tech
    • The HR profession
    • Global
    • All HR topics
  • Legal
    • Case law
    • Commentary
    • Flexible working
    • Legal timetable
    • Maternity & paternity
    • Shared parental leave
    • Redundancy
    • TUPE
    • Disciplinary and grievances
    • Employer’s guides
  • AWARDS
    • Personnel Today Awards
    • The RAD Awards
  • Jobs
    • Find a job
    • Jobs by email
    • Careers advice
    • Post a job
  • Brightmine
    • Learn more
    • Products
    • Free trial
    • Request a quote
  • Webinars
  • Advertise
  • OHW+

Long Covid

Long Covid, or post-Covid-19 syndrome, is a prolonged persistence of symptoms associated with a coronavirus (Covid-19) infection which extends beyond the typical recovery period of around two weeks. Symptoms are wide ranging, but commonly include fatigue, breathlessness, chest pain and problems with memory and concentration or “brain fog”. ONS data in September 2021 suggested that, of UK people with self-reported long Covid, 817,000 (84%) first had (or suspected they had) Covid-19 at least 12 weeks previously and, for 384,000 (40%), at least one year previously. These pages provide news and guidance on the impact of long Covid as individuals, the medical profession and employers start to understand it.

    • Coronavirus
    • Long Covid
    • OH service delivery

    More than a million could have long Covid

    by Ashleigh Webber 6 Apr 2021
    by Ashleigh Webber 6 Apr 2021

    More than one million people in the UK were thought to have symptoms associated with long Covid at the beginning...

    • Research
    • Coronavirus
    • Long Covid

    Seven in 10 hospitalised with Covid-19 still not recovered five months on

    by Ashleigh Webber 25 Mar 2021
    by Ashleigh Webber 25 Mar 2021

    Research finds many people hospitalised with Covid-19 are still struggling months later.

    • Coronavirus
    • Health surveillance
    • Long Covid

    ‘Up to a million’ will need long Covid rehabilitation

    by Personnel Today 9 Mar 2021
    by Personnel Today 9 Mar 2021

    Senior health professionals have suggested that up to a million people will need treatment for long Covid, which will place...

    • Coronavirus
    • Vaccinations
    • Long Covid

    How might Covid-19 change occupational health?

    by Personnel Today 5 Mar 2021
    by Personnel Today 5 Mar 2021

    There are undoubtedly still pandemic challenges ahead but are there lessons that OH can already begin to learn from 2020?...

    • Research
    • Coronavirus
    • Long Covid

    Early mobility may aid severe Covid-19 recovery

    by Ashleigh Webber 24 Feb 2021
    by Ashleigh Webber 24 Feb 2021

    Exercise and getting people mobile early on in their rehabilitation from severe Covid-19 may help improve recovery, research has indicated....

    • Research
    • Coronavirus
    • Clinical governance

    SOM issues Covid and long Covid return-to-work guidance

    by Ashleigh Webber 18 Feb 2021
    by Ashleigh Webber 18 Feb 2021

    The Society of Occupational Medicine has published new guidance on returning to work after Covid-19 and long Covid.

    • Coronavirus
    • NHS
    • Long Covid

    MPs want ‘long Covid’ compensation for frontline workers

    by Ashleigh Webber 18 Feb 2021
    by Ashleigh Webber 18 Feb 2021

    Long Covid – the 'hidden health crisis of the pandemic’ – should be recognised as an occupational disease, say MPs.

    • Coronavirus
    • Long Covid
    • OH service delivery

    Workers with ‘long Covid’ may need personalised and long-term support

    by Christine Husbands 5 Feb 2021
    by Christine Husbands 5 Feb 2021

    Employers wishing to minimise the impact of “long Covid” on both their employees and their organisation should ensure their health...

    • Coronavirus
    • Testing
    • Disability

    Guidance aiming to help healthcare professionals manage ‘long Covid’

    by Nic Paton 7 Jan 2021
    by Nic Paton 7 Jan 2021

    New guidance has been published on managing the long-term health effects of Covid-19, or so-called ‘long Covid’.
    The guidance by...

    • Stress
    • Anxiety
    • Coronavirus

    One in five ‘long Covid’ sufferers still unable to work after six months

    by Ashleigh Webber 5 Jan 2021
    by Ashleigh Webber 5 Jan 2021

    Many people suffering with ‘long Covid’ are still unable to fully work six months after their initial coronavirus infection, according...

    • Coronavirus
    • Testing
    • Long Covid

    Significant minority experiencing ‘long Covid’ symptoms, warns ONS

    by Nic Paton 17 Dec 2020
    by Nic Paton 17 Dec 2020

    A fifth of people who have tested positive for Covid-19 are still exhibiting symptoms five weeks or more after being...

    • Anxiety
    • Coronavirus
    • Depression

    Long Covid: how health and wellbeing benefits can make a difference

    by David Williams 30 Nov 2020
    by David Williams 30 Nov 2020

    Long Covid can affect many areas of an employee’s life – and the health and wellbeing benefits and interventions offered...

    • Research
    • Coronavirus
    • Long Covid

    Multiple organ damage identified in ‘long Covid’ sufferers

    by Ashleigh Webber 16 Nov 2020
    by Ashleigh Webber 16 Nov 2020

    Signs of damage to multiple organs have been detected in young and previously healthy people four months after they were...

    • Anxiety
    • Coronavirus
    • Depression

    ‘Long Covid’ can cause breathlessness, organ abnormalities and fatigue for months

    by Nic Paton 9 Nov 2020
    by Nic Paton 9 Nov 2020

    An Oxford University study looking at the longer-term impact of Covid-19, so-called “long Covid”, has concluded that a large proportion...

    • Coronavirus
    • Long Covid
    • OH service delivery

    Could ‘long Covid’ become the biggest return-to-work challenge yet for OH?

    by Nic Paton 6 Nov 2020
    by Nic Paton 6 Nov 2020

    Covid-19 is not just a discussion about those who recover from the virus and those, sadly, who do not. A...

Newer Posts
Older Posts

  • Empowering working parents and productivity during the summer holidays SPONSORED | Businesses play a...Read more
  • AI is here. Your workforce should be ready. SPONSORED | From content creation...Read more

Personnel Today Jobs
 

Search Jobs

PERSONNEL TODAY

About us
Contact us
Browse all HR topics
Email newsletters
Content feeds
Cookies policy
Privacy policy
Terms and conditions

JOBS

Personnel Today Jobs
Post a job
Why advertise with us?

EVENTS & PRODUCTS

The Personnel Today Awards
The RAD Awards
Employee Benefits
Forum for Expatriate Management
OHW+
Whatmedia

ADVERTISING & PR

Advertising opportunities
Features list 2025

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • Linkedin


© 2011 - 2025 DVV Media International Ltd

Personnel Today
  • Home
    • All PT content
  • Email sign-up
  • Topics
    • HR Practice
    • Employee relations
    • Learning & training
    • Pay & benefits
    • Wellbeing
    • Recruitment & retention
    • HR strategy
    • HR Tech
    • The HR profession
    • Global
    • All HR topics
  • Legal
    • Case law
    • Commentary
    • Flexible working
    • Legal timetable
    • Maternity & paternity
    • Shared parental leave
    • Redundancy
    • TUPE
    • Disciplinary and grievances
    • Employer’s guides
  • AWARDS
    • Personnel Today Awards
    • The RAD Awards
  • Jobs
    • Find a job
    • Jobs by email
    • Careers advice
    • Post a job
  • Brightmine
    • Learn more
    • Products
    • Free trial
    • Request a quote
  • Webinars
  • Advertise
  • OHW+