Long Covid: Research

(asked on 3rd March 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish the (a) name and (b) proportion of the £50 million funding for research into long-covid of each study that will be supported by that funding.


Answered by
Maria Caulfield Portrait
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
This question was answered on 11th April 2022

The following table shows the research projects funded through research calls for the long term effects of COVID-19 and by the National Institute for Health Research through its funding streams, with the proportion of the £50.97 million investment received.

Project description

Percentage of investment

REACT-Long COVID (REACT-LC) programme

10.7%

Non-hospitalised Children & young people (CYP) with Long Covid (The CLoCk Study)

3.6%

Therapies for Long COVID in non-hospitalised individuals: From symptoms, patient reported outcomes and immunology to targeted therapies (The TLC Study)

4.4%

Characterisation, determinants, mechanisms and consequences of the long-term effects of COVID-19: providing the evidence base for health care services

18.8%

Development of a robust T cell assay to retrospectively diagnose SARS-CoV-2 infection and IFN-γ release assay as diagnostic and monitoring assay in Long COVID patients

0.7%

Explaining why long COVID patients experience breathlessness and a reduced ability to exercise

3.5%

The immunologic and virologic determinants of long COVID

1.5%

Understanding and treating ‘brain fog’

2.4%

Immune analysis of Long COVID to inform rational choices in diagnostic testing and therapeutics

1.1%

Understanding and using family experiences of managing long COVID to support self- care and timely access to services

1.1%

Quality-of-life in patients with long COVID: harnessing the scale of big data to quantify the health and economic costs

1.3%

Optimising standards of care for long COVID in hospitals, doctors’ surgeries and at home

6.7%

Using Activity Tracking and Just-In-Time Messaging to Improve Adaptive Pacing: A Pragmatic Randomised Control Trial

0.6%

ReDIRECT: Remote Diet Intervention to Reduce long Covid symptoms Trial

2.0%

Co-designing personalised self-management support for people with Long Covid

2.2%

Percutaneous Auricular Nerve Stimulation for Treating Post-COVID Fatigue (PAuSing-Post-COVID Fatigue)

1.3%

Developing and testing the best ways to diagnose, treat and provide rehabilitation for people with long COVID

13.3%

Impact of COVID-19 vaccination on preventing long COVID: a population-based cohort study using linked NHS data

0.4%

Long COVID Core Outcome Set (LC-COS) project

0.3%

UK evaluation of NHS support post-hospitalisation for COVID19 to inform service development and achieve holistic, integrated, equitable and cost-effective services

1.0%

Post-hospital COVID-19 Study (PHOSP-COVID)

16.5%

HEAL-COVID - a study to develop treatments for COVID-19 that reduce the longer-term death and disability

6.9%

Reticulating Splines