#319 Long Covid - the invisible illness with Jemma Bella

The Business of Healthcare Podcast with Tara Humphrey

Jemma Bella joins us on The Business of Healthcare podcast to share her experiences of living with long covid.

What is long COVID? Most people with COVID-19 feel better within a few days or weeks of their first symptoms and make a full recovery within 12 weeks. For some people, symptoms can last longer. This is called long COVID or post COVID-19 syndrome. Long COVID is a new condition which is still being studied.

Jemma and I discussed:

1. Mental Health

2. Stigma associated with the condition

3. Feelings of blame, guilt, acceptance and the importance of control

4. Access support via the NHS

5. The importance of community

6. Mindset

7. What it means to be healthy

8. The purpose of the long covid collective

9. The support from her family

10. Financial considerations moving forward

Blog: https://www.jemmabellablog.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_jemma_bella/

Work with me

I’m Tara Humphrey and I’m the founder of THC Primary Care, a leading healthcare consultancy. I provide project and network management to Primary Care Networks and consulting support to clinical leads. To date, I’ve worked with 11 Training Hubs and supported over 120 Primary Care Networks and 3 GP Federations.  I understand and appreciate the complexity of healthcare and what it takes to deliver projects across multiple practices.

I have over 20 years of project management and business development experience across the private and public sector and have an MBA in Leadership and Management in Healthcare. I’m also published in the London Journal of Primary Care and the author of over 250 blogs.

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