Byrne, Ben E. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2183-8166
Faiz, Omar D.
Bottle, Alex
Aylin, Paul
Vincent, Charles A.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Health Services and Delivery Research Programme
Health Foundation
University of Bristol
Health Services and Delivery Research Programme
St Mark's Association
Health Foundation
University of Bristol
Article History
Accepted: 5 September 2020
First Online: 20 October 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The author declares that they have no conflict of interest.
: This study was exempt from Research Ethics Committee review [CitationRef removed]. Through the local Research and Development unit, the study protocol underwent independent peer review and was adopted on the NIHR Portfolio. All responses were confidential. Consent was provided implicitly by returning the questionnaire, or explicitly online. The Dr Foster Unit has approval from the Secretary of State and the Health Research Authority under Regulation 5 of the Health Service (Control of Patient Information) Regulations 2002 to hold confidential data and analyse them for research purposes (CAG ref 15/CAG/0005). We have approval to use them for research and measuring quality of delivery of healthcare, from the London—South East Ethics Committee (REC ref 15/LO/0824).