Patients trapped in hospital with coronavirus can now speak to their loved ones via videochat - all thanks to the work of one industrious nurse.
Leona Harris managed to raise more than £35,000 and has now been able to put 70 iPads in hospital wards around the country, including handing them to her own patients at Fairfield Hospital in Bury.
The devices mean that vulnerable people can see their families faces for the first time since the Covid-19 lockdown began more than a month ago.
"I've been on the Covid ward since day one and you could see immediately that some people were getting down because they couldn't see their families," Leona explained.
"People with dementia, Alzheimers and anything cognitive like that, they relate better to people who they know.
"At the moment all they are seeing is faces hidden behind masks so that must be really uncomfortable and unpleasant for them."
Leona, a mother-of-two and a nurse of 20 years, has been spending most of her time looking after patients since the lockdown began.
She has not seen her youngest daughter in over a month and last week she even spent her 48th birthday at Fairfield, helping people trapped on a coronavirus ward.
But she says the work is worth it when her and her colleagues get to see people interacting with their families for the through the iPads.
"I love my girls more than anything and I can't see them so I can see how it must affect people," she said.
"I haven't seen my youngest daughter for months, she's at Edge Hill University and she's isolating up there.
"But, when you see people speaking to their relatives for the first time in ages it just makes it all worth it."
Leona's fundraising has been supported by her husband Nick, whose colleagues at Manchester law firm Simpson Millar, have helped to generate £27,500 through donating a series of project.
She has also found a friend in the form of Casualty actress Amanda Mealing, who recorded a video urging people to get behind the cause, labelled Stay Together.
But, not content with her good work, Leona hopes to keep pushing and raise enough money to put tablets in even more hospitals.
"We want to keep going. We've got a lot more to do.
"We want to do everything we can for patients and it's not very nice at the moment being stuck in a room but we need to do our best for them."
To donate to Leona's Stay Together campaign, visit: www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/staytogether.
