Cooperation

Bundesvereinigung der Deutschen Arbeitgeberverbände e.V. (BDA) informs employers about long COVID.

If the illness has been recognised as an occupational disease or accident at work, the accident insurance funds and occupational insurance associations (UK/BG) can help with questions about long COVID. Together with the occupational insurance association clinics (BG clinics), they developed, at an early stage, a cross-regional, structured and interdisciplinary offer for those affected by the consequences of an occupational COVID-19 illness.

Deutsche Behindertensportverband (DBS) e.V. offers people with long COVID a wide range of sports, including medically prescribed rehabilitation sports.

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Pneumologie und Beatmungsmedizin (DGP) is a specialist society that deals with various respiratory and lung diseases. It also provides expert knowledge about long COVID.

Deutsche Krankenhausgesellschaft (DKG) helps to find care options for those affected by long COVID.

Ergänzende unabhängige Teilhabeberatung (EUTB®) provides long-COVID-related support in matters relating to participation, such as assistance or aids.

GKV-Spitzenverband is the central organisation representing the interests of the statutory health and nursing care insurance providers in Germany, and at the European and international levels. It shapes the framework conditions for intensive competition with regard to quality and economic efficiency in healthcare and nursing care. The health of the approximately 73 million insured persons is at the centre of its activities.

Kassenärztliche Bundesvereinigung (KBV) organises outpatient medical and psychotherapeutic care throughout Germany. Family doctor practices are the first contact point for those affected by long COVID.

The Long COVID Deutschland (LCD) initiative represents the interests of those affected by long COVID throughout the nation, and is actively involved in education, care and research.

Long COVID-Vernetzungsstelle (long COVID networking centre) publishes current information on long COVID and provides an opportunity for networking and information exchange. Self-help groups can be found on the Internet portal, the events offer lectures on research, therapy and rehabilitation and interested parties can make a variety of contacts at the meeting point.

The National Pandemic Cohort Network (NAPKON) was founded in 2020 within the framework of Netzwerk Universitätsmedizin (NUM), which is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). It was founded to pool national research activities within a standardised framework.

At NAKOS, those affected and experts can find self-help organisations for long COVID sufferers, their relatives and coronavirus-related self-help groups from all over Germany.

Sozialversicherung für Landwirtschaft, Forsten und Gartenbau (SVLFG) (Social Insurance for Agriculture, Forests and Horticulture) offers its insured persons various benefits in the event of long COVID.