Saturday 04 May 2024
Internal Reference Number: FOI_7856
Date Request Received: 02/04/2024 00:00:00
Date Request Replied To: 22/04/2024 00:00:00
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Request Summary: Long Covid services
Request Category: Media
| Question Number 1: Do you have a specialist service for long Covid patients within your trust? Please name the clinic/service | |
| Answer To Question 1: Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust do not offer this service. Respiratory/Medicine - Do not offer this service, Long Covid Service is held in the Community. Clinical Psychology: There is a specialist Long Covid service in the community with MDT support so we would signpost all referrals to them. | |
| Question Number 2: How many patients in your local NHS area have been referred to the clinic/service to date? Please break down by year to date ie 12 months to this date in 2024 and then each of the previous 12 months back to the start of the service | |
| Answer To Question 2: Please see response to Q1 | |
| Question Number 3: Is the service physician-led? | |
| Answer To Question 3: Please see response to Q1 | |
| Question Number 4: Please provide figures for how many patients referred to the clinic/service received the following type of treatment in-house: 1. physical rehabilitation – please give details 2. Graded exercise therapy 3. CBT or other psychological intervention – please state whether this is to cope with symptoms or with a view to improving/treating them 4. Advice on pacing 5. A brain retraining or Neuro Linguistic Programming-based course such as the Lightning Process, Gupta Programme or Nuffield programme (please specify which) 6. drug treatment 7. other, please specify | |
| Answer To Question 4: Please see response to Q1 | |
| Question Number 5: Does the service have the ability to prescribe medications to long Covid patients for symptoms where appropriate? | |
| Answer To Question 5: Please see response to Q1 | |
| Question Number 6: If so, please list the 3 most common drugs prescribed for long Covid patients by the clinic, with numbers of prescriptions if possible | |
| Answer To Question 6: Please see response to Q1 | |
| Question Number 7: Does the service have the ability to order diagnostic tests and scans? | |
| Answer To Question 7: Please see response to Q1 | |
| Question Number 8: If so please list the 3 most commonly ordered tests/scans/diagnostic questionnaires for long Covid patients by the clinic | |
| Answer To Question 8: Please see response to Q1 | |
| Question Number 9: If not provided in-house, which of the following types of services does the clinic/service refer patients onto or recommend? 1. physical rehabilitation – please give details 2. Graded exercise therapy 3. CBT or other psychological intervention – please state whether this is to cope with symptoms or with a view to improving/treating them 4. Advice on pacing 5. A brain retraining or Neuro Linguistic Programming-based course such as the Lightning Process, Gupta Programme or Nuffield programme (please specify which) 6. drug treatment 7. other, please specify | |
| Answer To Question 9: Please see response to Q1 | |
| Question Number 10: How many staff do you have working in the service FTE (full time equivalent) broken down by job title of: a) doctor b) nurse c) physiotherapist d) occupational therapist e) clinical psychologist/ CBT practitioner / psychotherapist/counsellor f) other, please specify | |
| Answer To Question 10: Please see response to Q1 | |
| Question Number 11: For any doctors employed, please specify their specialism eg GP, cardiologist, neurologist, psychiatrist | |
| Answer To Question 11: Please see response to Q1 | |
| Question Number 12: Is the clinic expected to continue running after 2025? | |
| Answer To Question 12: Please see response to Q1 | |
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