News-Medical.Net December 1, 2025
People with Long COVID use the health service significantly more than they did before their diagnosis. These patients need to use GP, outpatient, inpatient and emergency department services more than people in other control groups – and the costs of their healthcare use have more than doubled.
These are the findings of a major study which have serious implications for health service resourcing, globally. Long COVID affects 1.9 million people in the UK, and at least 65 million individuals worldwide are estimated to have had Long COVID after the first pandemic wave.
The study published today, 28 November 2024, in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine analysed how 280,000 people with Long COVID use healthcare services...
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