Living With Covid Recovery wins at the Innovate Awards 2022

The Covid-19 pandemic highlighted exemplary efforts by staff in health and social care teams but also shone a light on the need for innovation and transformation in the way we work. The Innovate Awards celebrate excellence in innovation in health and care, showcasing those teams, organisations and health and care systems leading the way in positive change.

The LWCR app provides evidence-based therapeutic intervention, supporting multidisciplinary teams to manage patients remotely, whilst providing personalised guidance and symptom monitoring. It has gone through nine iterations, led by structured patient and clinician engagement and is now in use in over 30 NHS trusts, supporting more than 5,500 patients.

Patient and public insights underpin the success of the programme. By harnessing real-life experiences, we are helping people with Long COVID, a novel and complex condition, to feel well supported and cared for.

The Innovate Awards is a collaboration between the AHSN Network, which operates as the innovation arm of the NHS in England and acts as the collective voice of the 15 academic health science networks (AHSNs), and the NHS Confederation, the membership body representing healthcare in the UK.