COVID-19: National PTSD screening programme urgently needed

Patients affected by COVID-19 need to be urgently screened for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and receive regular check-ups for at least a year. The ‘call to action’ is led by UCL psychiatrists and psychologists including Dr Michael Bloomfield (UCL Psychiatry).

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