The Society of Occupational Medicine (SOM) has published several resources detailing best practice guidance on the support required for a return to work when you have Long Covid.
If you are someone with Long Covid planning a return to work or a manager supporting someone to return to work the information below is a must read.
SOM’s 2022 position paper: Returning to Work with Long Covid: What Works?
A SOM webinar by Dr Clare Rayner discussing the 2022 guidelines can be viewed here.
SOM’s 2024: Long Covid: A manager’s guide.
An infographic summarising how managers can support staff with Long Covid back to work can be seen below and downloaded by clicking here.
A myth buster regarding Long Covid and work can be viewed below and downloaded by clicking here.
Durham County Department of Public Health have produced a great video demonstrating that covid and many other viruses are airborne. The video is less than two minutes long. An airborne virus is a virus that can infect other people through particles in the air, sometimes for hours after the sick person has left the area! […]
This narrative review shows that POTS, ME/CFS and Long COVID are closely related conditions that share common biological mechanisms. The authors explain that problems with the autonomic nervous system, immune dysregulation and autoimmunity, mitochondrial dysfunction, reduced blood flow to the brain, and neuroinflammation all play a role. POTS and ME/CFS are identified as the most […]
Summary: Comparing Long Covid symptoms between patients that received COVID-19 vaccinations and those that did not. Study by Pasculli et. al., (2025) summarised by Amanda Harrington-Vail Introduction Since the COVID-19 pandemic was officially declared, almost 780 million cases and nearly 7 million deaths have been reported worldwide. Although COVID-19 vaccination has reduced the risk of […]
