A proportion of COVID-19 survivors experience prolonged symptoms, known as long-COVID . The estimated burden of long-COVID and poor mental, physical and occupational outcomes in healthcare workers is likely to be large. However, little understanding of the prevalence of long-COVID in healthcare workers, nor of its impact on the health service and the workforce.
The REACH-OUT project will run for three years and will undertake a mixed-methods approach to gain a better understanding of the medium- and long- term impacts of COVID-19 on the work and home lives of healthcare workers from diverse ethnicities.
We will use the finding of the study to better understand how healthcare workers can be supported as they recover and to make policy recommendations to support the recovery of the health care system.