The Faculty of Occupational Medicine has published this timely guidance, developed under the leadership of their new Academic Dean, Dr Ira Madan.

A FOM multidisciplinary group developed this guidance aimed at all healthcare professionals to assist them in facilitating the return to work of people who are unable to work due to long-COVID.  The guidance was developed alongside the NICE/RCGP/SIGN COVID-19 rapid guideline: managing the long-term effects of COVID-19, published on 18th December 2020.

The FOM guidance is intended to complement and supplement the NICE guideline. It has deliberately not duplicated guidance on the management of the long-term effects of COVID-19 but have focussed on functional impairment which may lead to obstacles to RTW. Where the multi-disciplinary group were unable to find evidence for their guidance in the peer-reviewed literature, they based their advice on general occupational health principles.

Visit the FOM website for more information.