Thompson, Daniel
Venturini, Sara
Whitfield, Peter C.
Hutchinson, Peter
Gurusinghe, Nihal
Trivedi, Rikin
Helmy, Adel
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Bodkin, Peter A
Loan, James LM
Habiby, Alexandria
Latimer, Jack
Ibrahim, Ibrahim
Benzahia, Bilal
Simms, Neil
Walsh, Jamie
McGarry, Theresa
Moore, Emer
Teo, Mario
Sluijters, Olivier
Selorfia, Shammael
Sajjad, Jahangir
Khan, Shuaib
Patel, Krunan
Othman, Hassan
Bay, Leevette
Reeve, Kathy
Ali, Muhammad Ammar
Elmohseen, Ahmed Abd
Javadpour, Mohsen
Kehoe, Laura
Nolan, Deidre
Corr, Paula
Coffey, Deirdre
Okasha, Mohamed
Collins, Victoria
Helley, Michael
Highes, Mark
Haugh, John-Paul
Brewster, Molly
Hassan, Samih
Hall, Allan
El Sheikh, Mustafa
Ming, Brian Ou Yong
Kulasekaran, Ajitha
Shah, Devansh Mitesh
Simpson, Abbie
Danciut, Mihai
Goacher, Edward
Sheikh, Asim
Saeed, Fozia
Tilling, Elliot
Kenkinson, Michael D
Ali, Ahmad M. S.
Elmoslemany, Tarek
Farhad, Imran
Ansari, Saniya
Choudhury, Nuzhat
Gurjer, Aaditya
Khanom, Anjum Aarifa
Rupra, Arun
Mendoza, Nigel
Sharma, Puneet
Nair, Ramesh
Wang, Yi
Quansah, Gloria
Parker, Lydia
Al Hajjieh, Mohammad
Kailaya-Vasan, Ahilan
Knight, James
Dey, Proma
Noureldin, Fatmah
Grover, Patrick
Hanrahan, John Gerrard
Salhab, Hamza A
Ali, Marwan
Bal, Jamail
Bilal, Sobiya
Williams, Simon
Tominey, Steven
Mansour, Abdalla
Greenway, Fay
Simon, Natalia
Selvan, Gayathri Arul
Bhowmik, Anindya
Kumar, Eva Sherin Saravana
Mukerji, Nitin
Jayakumar, Nithish
Nnamani, Ekene
Rajiv, Rasha
Glancz, Laurence
Rybka, Natalia
Bagchi, Ananyo
Edwards-Bailey, Andrew
Matloob, Samir
Patel, Jash
Mansour, Abdalla
Lamb, Catherine
Rathnayake, Nethmini
Mahoney, Dom
Sofela, Boh
Alade, Andrew
Islim, Abdurrahman
Lee, Jing Xian
Ibrahim, Mohammed
Joju, Swetha
Bacon, Andy
Sanders, Matthew
Philip, Jerry
Bulters, Diederik
Hall, Samuel
Bligh, Emily
Bandyopadhyay, Soham
Suresh, Vishnu
Brydon, Howard
Robson, Craig
Sun, Rosa
Vassilou, Anna
Funding for this research was provided by:
Society of British Neurological Surgeons
Royal College of Surgeons of England
National Institute for Health and Care Research
NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre
Article History
Received: 29 April 2025
Accepted: 26 June 2025
First Online: 17 July 2025
Change Date: 31 July 2025
Change Type: Correction
Change Details: A Correction to this paper has been published:
Change Details: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00701-025-06630-4
Declarations
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: This project was conducted as a multicentre audit of fully anonymised clinical records. Individual informed consent was not required, as no patient-identifiable information was collected or reported and the study involved only existing data gathered during routine care.
: This study was categorized as an audit and therefore did not require formal ethical approval from an ethics reviews board according to the NHS Health Research Authority. This is in line with:• UK Policy Framework for Health and Social Care Research (2017), Section 2.4 (use of existing anonymised data).• HRA guidance on distinguishing audit/service evaluation from research requiring consent.
: The authors declare no competing interests.