Abbreviated versions of our recommendations are listed below, with full statements at https://www.cpcpr.org/covid-19-2. We have then listed topics for discussion within the tweetchat.

Tweetchat discussion topics:

• What is your area of practice? 
• Ideally, how do you think you / your profession would be most involved in supporting people when they are experiencing / recovering from Covid-19?
• When considering the kinds of support you are / your profession is most likely to provide, what do you think it will be like for people trying to access this support? Do you have any experiences or examples?
• From your perspective, do you have any additions or clarifications that you think are needed to the recommendations?

We will also have three polls during the chat,to find out more about people who are involved in the chat and their views.These will relate to:

• What kinds of service provision people are involved in (acute / rehabilitation / community /not relevant or other);
• How involved people are / think they will be in supporting people who have / have had Covid-19 ( substantially involved, somewhat involved, peripherally involved, not very intervolved but interested)and
• Your thoughts about how much access people will have to support for longer-term impacts of Covid-19 (access across the UK / access if skilled at seeking help / access only in some parts of the UK / difficulty getting access to support across the UK)

Another important thing to be aware of is that we are using this tweetchat as part of our research project. To enable you to consider whether you would like to take part we would like to explain about the research project and how it is to be conducted. If you do decide to take part then your participation would be voluntary and you can contribute as little or as much as you like to the research.

Your involvement Your involvement in the study would be participation in a single tweetchat to explore questions around your perceptions of support after covid. The tweetchat discussion topics are included above. We are interested in the thoughts of anyone over 18 years old and who is affected by such recommendations, or who can affect service provision (‘stakeholder’).

If you participate in the tweetchat then your consent to take part in the research will be implied: this stance will be reiterated at the start of the chat and at intervals throughout the chat.  The responses from the tweetchat will be collected as a transcript and analysed for emerging themes. We will be reporting back to the Chief Scientist Office and will also communicate what we learn in as many ways as possible. We aim to influence decision-making around service provision, but we cannot promise that you will have direct benefit from taking part.

Will my responses be private? As Twitter is a public space, if you participate in the tweetchat your responses will be in the public domain.However, you can contact the lead researcher after the tweetchat if you would prefer your tweets not to be analysed in the research study (Cathy Bulley on cbulley@qmu.ac.uk). The research will be presented for publication to appropriate journals and professional conferences.People could search for your tweet if they wished, but we will not identify you in our reporting.

Ethical approval The study has received ethical approval from Queen Margaret University Ethics Committee

Research team:

Prof.Cathy Bulley, Prof. Jan Dewing, Prof. Brendan McCormack, Dr Eleanor Curnow, Dr Kath Nicol, Dr Lisa Salisbury, Dr Vaibhav Tyagi, Dr Kim Stuart, Ms Ruth Magowan (School of Health Sciences, Queen Margaret University; representing Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Experience of Covid-19).