Work and vocational rehabilitation for people living with long covid

The LOCOMOTION quality improvement collaborative included patient contributors.Patient led research was considered on equal terms with professionally led studies (and many authors were in both categories).Patients contributed the comments in box 1.The paper was read by two additional people with long covid and modified in response to their feedback.The final version was read and approved by the LOCOMOTION Patient Advisory Group. How this article was createdThis article, like others in this series on persistent symptoms following covid-19, aims to update and extend a previous BMJ Practice Pointer published in August 2020 at a time when there was almost no peer-reviewed research or evidence based guidance on the condition.26 This paper draws on three sources.First, we conducted a literature search of PubMed using the search terms (coronavirus OR covid 19 OR post-covid) AND (vocational rehab OR return to work).We screened articles from 2020 to 2023.Second, we undertook research interviews with people with lived experience of long covid and professionals involved in long covid care.10 Third, we asked experts in the vocational rehabilitation and occupational health communities for consensus statements, guidelines, service specifications, and patient facing literature.