Heald, Adrian H. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9537-4050
Reynolds, Gavin
Nash, Isabel
Boyle, Onagh
Daly, Chris
Longson, Damien
O’Shea, Donal
Ingram, Joseph
Holt, Richard
Firth, Joseph
Stedman, Mike
Syed, Akheel
de Hert, Marc
Article History
Received: 9 April 2025
Accepted: 22 May 2025
First Online: 19 June 2025
Declarations
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: Adrian H Heald, Gavin Reynolds, Isabel Nash, Onagh Boyle, Chris Daly, Damien Longson, Donal O’Shea, Joseph Ingram, Richard Holt, Joseph Firth, Mike Stedman, Akheel Syed, Marc de Hert have no conflict of interest.
: This intervention formed part of usual care based on clinical need. Therefore ethical approval was not sought. The authors assert that all procedures contributing to this work comply with the ethical standards of the relevant national and institutional committees on human experimentation and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2013. This was a service improvement project. The UK Health Research Authority decision tool did not consider this study to be research and therefore NHS Research Ethics Committee review was not required. All patients who received semaglutide gave verbal consent to receiving this medication as part of their usual care. Their consent was recorded in the electronic patient hospital record.