In March last year the FMS Guideline Regarding Post-COVID Care established. This guideline was a starting point for better care and treatment of Post-COVID patients and better knowledge exchange in this area. To follow up on this, the Post-COVID knowledge platform was established. This independent knowledge platform is an initiative of C-support and Long Alliantie Nederland.
Knowledge platform Post-COVID wants to be a connecting link between Dutch parties involved in post-COVID: patients, therapists, care providers, researchers and scientists. A good connection between these parties leads to better knowledge exchange and thus to better care and treatment of post-COVID patients.
Research results will then find their way to practitioners more quickly and thus to implementation in care pathways, guidelines, protocols, etc. And conversely, insights and bottlenecks of patients and professionals can be bundled and shared with policymakers and researchers. This allows policy to be adjusted if necessary and relevant research questions and studies to be set out.
The ultimate goals of the knowledge platform are: knowledge exchange, sharing good examples and identifying bottlenecks. These bottlenecks then form a basis for a further development agenda as a follow-up to the FMS guideline.
Members come together
The core group of the Post-COVID knowledge platform consists of representatives from NHG, FMS, patient organizations (PostCovidNL and Long-Covid Nederland), PPN (Paramedisch Platform Nederland), NFU, RIVM, LAN and C-support. The platform itself includes representatives from the umbrella organizations of the top 10 healthcare providers at Post-COVID based on the European research, supplemented by NVK, neurologists NVK, GGD and social workers' association BPSW and, where necessary, other parties on an incidental basis.
The first exploratory online meetings have taken place in recent weeks. There was a large turnout for these meetings. On May 11, there will be a first live meeting where, among other things, the themes that are important for this knowledge platform will be discussed.
Subsidy
To set up this knowledge platform, ZonMw has provided a subsidy for two years. After that, it will be examined whether and if so in what way it should or should not be continued.
