Waltham Forest Long COVID Community Triage Team

What happens after we receive your referral?

You will be contacted by one of our team and offered a telephone triage assessment appointment. This appointment will last between 45 – 60 minutes and will discuss your symptoms and how these are impacting your daily life.

If needed, we also offer face to face appointments.

We have a waiting list for assessments and so it may take a little while for you to hear from us.

After the telephone appointment

Following the telephone appointment, we agree a plan with you and the team which may include:

Asking your GP to investigate/ review any medical symptoms. Our service is therapy led and so is not able to diagnose or investigate medical conditions or symptoms. We will therefore refer you back to your GP if further investigations are needed.
Referral onto the Post Covid group for fatigue and breathlessness management and support
Referral to IAPT/ Talking Therapies for support
A referral onto a community team (ICT – Integrated Community Team)
Information on how to register with other organisations that offer support

There may be a wait for some services and to access the group.

Following this we will write a discharge letter to you and your GP which will have a summary of the assessment and include any recommendations and referrals that have been made.