Dr Kelly Fearnley was working at Bradford Royal Infirmary in November 2020 when she got Long Covid and she is still unable to work, has violent shakes, hallucinations and a high heart rate
The BMA and the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) have asked the government to designate long term conditions caused by covid-19 as occupational diseases. This would mean that staff with these conditions could receive financial assistance in recognition that they had, most probably, caught the initial infection at work.
In November last year the Industrial Injuries Advisory Council (IIAC) published a paper recommending that five specific conditions be added to a list of prescribed diseases for which industrial injuries disability benefit is payable.1 The five conditions include persisting pneumonitis or lung fibrosis after acute covid-19 pneumonitis and persisting pulmonary hypertension caused by a pulmonary embolism developing between three days before and 90 days after a diagnosis of covid-19. Ischaemic stroke and …
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