RCN: Long Covid support still failing NHS staff

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Nursing staff and doctors with long Covid are still being denied essential financial support, two years after the government’s own scientific advisory body recommended action, according to the Royal College of Nursing (RCN). Nicola Ranger, General Secretary of the RCN, criticised the current financial assistance, stating it "does not adequately support medical and nursing staff." She is urging long Covid to be officially recognised as an occupational disease. Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00financial support doesn't support medical staff and nursing staff adequately. Thousands of nurses

00:07have contacted us for support because they have contracted Long Covid and sadly many of them

00:15have had to retire early, their careers that they love ended and some of them are living on as much

00:22as £500 a month. We don't feel that the financial support is enough and until Long Covid is

00:28recognised as an occupational disease that will continue. Nurses and doctors truly sacrificed

00:37during the pandemic, they put their lives on the line and I think and the BMA believe, the same as

00:45the Royal College of Nursing, that this is not the right way to fully reward and look after

00:52those that have put their lives on the line for the country.

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