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A group of NHS trusts have begun to equip patients suffering from long covid with a mobile phone app to monitor the condition.
It has been developed by teams from the University of Leeds, Leeds Teaching Hospitals and Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trusts, along with digital health company Elaros and software developers Pipe and Piper.
Among the trusts to have begun using the app at the beginning of the month are Salford Royal, Pennine Acute, Liverpool University, Airedale and Leeds Community Healthcare.
Long covid refers to persistent symptoms – including breathlessness, fatigue and brain fog – that continue for four weeks and longer after contracting Covid-19. Approximately 70,000 people have reportedly suffered from the condition for at least a year.