Ministry of Health's Approach to Long COVID Programme Principles
The Ministry of Health's approach to long COVID focuses on ensuring equity, inclusiveness for all communities, effectiveness of services, patient-centered care, and digital enablement. Management involves investigating, treating, and funding long COVID symptoms like other long-term conditions. Workstreams include establishing an Expert Advisory Group, developing a change package, monitoring evidence, and identifying research gaps specific to New Zealand. Emphasis is placed on learning from experiences, establishing a national community of practice, data collection, and dissemination of emerging models of care.
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Ministry of Healths Approach to long COVID Presented to the Goodfellow Long COVID webinar, 7 April 2022
COVID-19 Long COVID Programme principles giving effect to our obligations under Te Tiriti o Waitangi, including considering the interests and needs of M ori ensuring equity, which involves inclusiveness for all communities, particularly those most affected by COVID outbreaks i.e M ori and Pacific ensuring equity of access to services and outcomes ensuring services are effective, timely and reflects best-practice as the evidence emerges ensuring services are patient centred, including patient self-management and digital enablement to support patients with long COVID
COVID-19 Long COVID Long COVID is managed like other long-term conditions: Most people with COVID-19 have symptoms lasting up to 2 weeks. Longer-term symptoms after 6 weeks are considered long COVID. Long COVID symptoms are investigated, treated, and funded in the same way as other long-term conditions. Four workstreams looking at long COVID: Advisory group Establish an Expert Advisory Group, including people with lived experience, to guide and input into the change package and evidence. Change package Monitor DHBs with specific services for long COVID to develop a change package for others to use. Evidence Monitor emerging evidence to inform clinical pathways for identifying and managing long COVID. Further research Identify research gaps that are particular to Aotearoa New Zealand and how they might be addressed.
Managing the long-term health effects of COVID-19 Long COVID-19 approach Learning by doing Learning by looking DHBs sharing their experience of long COVID service establishment A national community of practice to improve clinical understanding and practical guidance Collating lessons learnt and distilling key principles Equitable model of care design Data collection A long COVID-19 Expert Advisory Group to provide oversight; with broad representation from M ori, Pacifica, researchers (i.e Ng kawekawe o mate Korona) consumers, clinicians, and service providers. Emerging evidence and continual literature reviews Horizon scanning Overseas health system approach, service establishment and development Appropriate clinical coding and performance improvement measures Dissemination of emerging models of care, clinical practice, patient self-management and digital enablement to support patients with long COVID-19 in a New Zealand context.
