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Data from the Office for National Statistics shows that in December 2022 an estimated 2.1 million people in the UK were experiencing self-reported long Covid, which affects more women than men.

But in the NHS priorities and operational planning guidance for 2023-24, no mention was made of long Covid.

Dr Binita Kane is a Consultant Respiratory Physician in Manchester. She also has a daughter with long Covid and knows the challenges that causes. She is worried that long Covid has been de-prioritised.

She joined Woman’s Hour’s Anita Rani to discuss this, along with Dr Melissa Heightman, clinical lead for Post-Covid services at University College Hospital London, and the national speciality advisor with the long Covid programme in NHS England.

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