Referrals should be made on the basis of ongoing symptoms and impact on the patients’ life, not the severity of the initial illness or a positive SARS-COV2 test.

Figures published by the Office for National Statistics this week suggest a fifth of people still have coronavirus symptoms five weeks after being infected with half of them – currently around 186,000 patients – having problems for 12 weeks or more.

Read more – Management in Practice (18/12/20)