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A nurse living with long Covid said a compensation scheme for frontline workers suffering from long-term effects of the virus needs to be “easy for workers to access” so employers cannot “hide” away from offering help. The Government has been urged to recognise Covid-19 as an occupational disease, as some sufferers have found it hard to return to work. Symptoms of long Covid include ongoing fatigue, loss of taste or smell, and respiratory and cardiovascular problems, and this week Professor Danny Altmann, from Imperial College London, said up to 20% of patients are reporting symptoms of the disease weeks after becoming ill. One Yorkshire nurse, who asked to remain anonymous, believes she first caught Covid back in April, after travelling in an ambulance with an infectious patient. She has struggled to return to work and suffers from fatigue, migraines, dizziness, brain fog and shortness of breath. The oncology nurse said she “fully supported” the APPG’s (All-Party Parliamentary Group) ...

Why Do You Need To Get A Work Note From A Doctor After A Serious Work Injury? We hear all the time from injured workers in DC who don’t understand the differences between simply getting medical treatment for an injury and getting medical treatment for a workers’ comp injury. If you were injured at work and are receiving benefits, you need to be getting monthly work notes as your “ticket” to continued money benefits and medical treatment. So How Does Medical Treament Work After A Serious Work Injury In Washington DC? First of all, treatment on workers comp requires authorizations - a lot more authorization than would be required under normal health insurance. The workers comp company just wants to throw up roadblocks and slow down progress in hopes that the injured workers will just get frustrated and stop treatment. Or use their personal insurance instead of workers comp insurance. And innjured workers will et it from both sides. Because workers comp insurance is such a pai...