Dr. Ciaran Bannan:

Post-acute Covid or long Covid is a very challenging condition, as the Senator identified. There are significant numbers of people who are not right many weeks after infection. We see a variety of symptoms, including neurological, cardiovascular, respiratory, aches and pains and musculoskeletal. In terms of our model of care, what we aim to offer, because we see such a variety of symptoms, is a one-stop shop for patients. When patients present to one of the long Covid clinics, pretty much all of their needs be met under one roof. We will have input from allied health professionals, including from occupational health, which will often run things such as boutique programmes and physiotherapy, which will also run exercise programmes for patients who may benefit from that. We will do the battery of investigations to out rule any-----