Evaluation of an innovative Live Strong COVID-mitigating healthcare delivery for adults after starting dialysis in the Northern Territory: A qualitative study

•The Live Strong project was invited, designed and implemented within the context of an anticipated high pandemic risk for patients within the Darwin, Northern Territory region. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people were leaders of this work, as patient-users (and research participants), in clinical service provider roles and the Indigenous Patient Reference Group.•The findings suggested that the study participants could identify ways that usually delivered Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander-led healthcare evaluated within the Live Strong project helped patients to ‘Live Strong’.•Participants’ feedback invited the successful elements of this Live Strong project---transport, physiotherapy and education---to be extended to other dialysis units they accessed.