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<p>The Department, through the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) and UK
Research and Innovation (UKRI), launched a £20 million joint research call which closed
on 9 December 2020. This call will fund comprehensive research to understand and address
the longer term physical and mental health effects of COVID-19 in individuals who
contracted the virus but were not hospitalised. Results of the call will be published
in due course.</p><p>The NIHR and UKRI have already invested £8.5 million in the PHOSP-COVID
study led by the University of Leicester. The study is one of the world’s largest
comprehensive research studies into the long-term physical and mental health impacts
of COVID-19 on hospitalised patients and will draw on expertise from a consortium
of leading researchers and doctors from across the United Kingdom.</p>
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