Hospitals across Australia are bracing for increased demand for specialised treatment and rehabilitation after winter Omicron wave
Waiting lists at long Covid rehabilitation clinics have blown out to more than five months, as experts call for a nationally coordinated approach to managing the condition.
Anthony Byrne, a physician at St Vincent hospital’s Covid clinic, said he believed there needed to be a nationally coordinated approach, and suggested long Covid would be best managed by a new centre for disease control . Establishing a CDC was an election commitment of the Labor government. Byrne said anecdotal evidence from colleagues suggested a similar picture across the country, although official data from state and territory health departments is near nonexistent.
“That’s an issue of resourcing – clinics could halve their waiting times if they doubled the resourcing of medical and other health professionals in the clinics.”
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