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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Samuel Lovett

Long Covid: MPs demand ‘urgent’ meeting with government over private clinics ‘exploiting’ patients

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A cross-party group of MPs and peers have written to the health secretary requesting an “urgent” meeting to discuss “unregulated” and “untested” treatments that are being offered to long Covid patients in the UK.

It comes after The Independent uncovered a wide range of unproven and “dangerous” therapies being touted to patients, few of which have been approved for use in the NHS – or rigorously tested – for alleviating persistent coronavirus symptoms.

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