Long Covid services

SWL have produced a Directory of Services for Kingston and Richmond for those with Long Covid symptoms:

1 – SELF HELP
a) www.yourcovidrecovery.nhs.uk
b) www.worry-tree.com (NHS Apps Library, based on CBT techniques)
c) Connected Kingston
d) PCN Social Prescribers – access as per arrangements in your PCN
e) Social Prescribing Richmond – Social Prescribing | RUILS Charity
f) Anosmia: Lost or changed sense of smell – NHS (www.nhs.uk)
g) Parosmia: Smell training :: AbScent or SmellAbility© – Training & Testing – Fifth Sense

2 – VOLUNTARY SECTOR & SOCIAL INITIATIVES
a) ABC – Active Breathing Course Referral Form (6 weeks long, 40min sessions weekly, virtual. For patients 12+ weeks post-Covid with ongoing low-level anxiety, breathlessness, disordered breathing. Based around singing.
b) Fulham FC (2 courses, 1 to run F2F at Kingsmeadow More than a Game – Mental Health Support, 1 to run virtually, we can refer both
c) Mind: Coronavirus – mental health information and support | Mind

3 – PUBLIC HEALTH & ADULT SOCIAL CARE KINGSTON
a) Get Active – a 12 week course including online 1:1’s with immediate effect for people experiencing post-Covid symptoms. We will also refer on to any community offers that will be of benefit to patients during the course
b) Stronger Together Hub
c) Connected Kingston

4 – PUBLIC HEALTH & ADULT SOCIAL CARE RICHMOND
a) Access Team
b) Extended Reablement Criteria
c) Online referrals form on the Council website
d) ‘Moves at Home’ – 3 hours of generic exercise and activity content via Council’s YouTube channel and Website
e) Community independent Living service (CILS) Info Navigation
f) Community independent Living service (CILS) Health and Wellbeing
g) CarePlace

5 – iCOPE – KINGSTON
a) Offering guided self-help and CBT for Long COVID symptoms. Long COVID Group offering psychological support for low to moderate symptoms – due to run from May 21. Self-referrals via website or from health professional.
b) Long Covid Health Management Group – enabling the normalisation of low-severity ongoing symptoms (in development)

6 – IAPT – RICHMOND
a) Offering a stepped-care model of CBT-based therapy approaches and guided self-help (Please use standard referral form)
b) Covid workshop – for people worried about the Pandemic
c) Covid support group
d) Breathe-well group
e) ACT Group : Mindfullness-based stress-reduction

7 – COMMUNITY MDT KINGSTON
a) MDT + OP Referral form (includes criteria)
b) Pathways

8 – COMMUNITY MDT RICHMOND
a) Referral information and pathway
9 – KINGSTON HOSPITAL MDT
a) MDT + OP Referral form (includes criteria)
b) Pathways
c) Direct queries to: khft.postcovidrespiratorykh@nhs.net

10 – SPECIALIST MDT ST GEORGES
a) Access to this specialist MDT is via the Kingston Hospital MDT Service