LCK In The News
February 6, 2023
The Science Times
LONG COVID KIDS Charity Reveals Ongoing and Increasing Healthcare Issues for the UK’s Next Generation
LCK has been collecting data by surveying 382 respondents representing children and young people with suspected and diagnosed Long Covid. The results, which are being analysed by the charity and their partner, the University of Derby, make grim reading for the NHS and for healthcare providers offering treatment to the UK's next generation.
Jan 20, 2023
BBC Radio 4
Women's Hour - Anita Rani speaks to Dr Binita Kane and Dr Melissa Heightman about Paediatric 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 it causes and is worried that Long Covid has been deprioritised.
She is joined by Dr Melissa Heightman, clinical lead for Post Covid services at University College Hospital London.
January 19, 2023
BBC Radio Solent
Sammie McFarland LCK CEO, Professor Nisreen Alwan and parent Louise Whapshott talk to Alun Newman
Parent and Charity CEO Sammie McFarland discusses the need for Paediatric Biomedical Research, the importance of research that involves the patient experience and unhelpful media headlines which do not accurately reflect study data (1hr8)
Alun shares parental experiences (from 2hrs8) and also interviews Professor Alwan who notes that a study solely of healthcare records can limit findings. She states the study reports that breathlessness, weakness, concentration and memory problems were higher in the study group than the control group.
Louise Whapshott, parent, discusses the Long Covid symptoms and history of her children "Their lives have been put on hold... They just exist at the moment".
Jan 12, 2023
Mail Online
Girl, 12, suffering with the effects of Long Covid two YEARS after testing positive still needs a feeding tube and can only manage to go to school part-time
Tillie Adams, from East London, has been suffering with the symptoms of long Covid for over two years. She tested positive for Covid at the end of 2020 and after recovering from cold symptoms and has continued to suffer from sickness, stomach pains and fatigue.
Appearing on Good Morning Britain with her feeding tube, Tillie said she is most excited for 'going to school and doing PE' when her health recovers.
70,000 children are estimated to be suffering from long Covid, 43000 of whom have had symptoms for more than a year.