Ms Sarah O'Connell:

I will make one point and then hand over to Ms O'Donovan. Right now, very few patients are being prescribed medications in public long Covid clinics. We are not talking here about controversial medications or LDN but about things like melatonin for sleep issues, anti-inflammatory drugs for muscle and joint pain and so on. We do not know why that is the case because these are medications that are prescribed every day in every GP practice in the country for these symptoms. Is it because they do not have the time for follow-up? We do not know. Providing symptom management and being willing to prescribe medications that are tried and tested for those particular symptoms would be an obvious starting point.