“…Some qualitative studies have begun to explore the experiences of health care professionals, patients and family members during the COVID‐19 pandemic. 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 However, these qualitative accounts focus on other aspects of health care, such as experiences of care received only in hospital, 14 , 15 , 19 , 20 , 21 working on the frontline of the pandemic, 16 , 17 , 18 being discharged from critical care prior to the pandemic, 22 or recovery from less severe forms of COVID‐19. 11 Therefore, despite the growing body of qualitative literature on this topic, the experiences of survival, recovery and rehabilitation from severe COVID‐19 infection, from the perspectives of the three key stakeholder groups involved in the rehabilitation process (patients, informal carers and health professionals) are yet to be fully explored.…”