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Article History

Received: 24 September 2022

Revised: 23 January 2023

Accepted: 26 January 2023

First Online: 28 April 2023

Ethics declaration

: The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

: The Health Research Authority 2017 () define differences between research, service evaluation and audit. NHS ethical research committee review is not required for service evaluations or research which seeks to elicit the views, experiences, knowledge and contributions of healthcare professionals on a given subject area. Confirmation that this service evaluation project did not require ethical approval was sought and granted from the local Health Board's ethics contact and thereafter, the local NHS Clinical Research Governance Group.

: All participants received information resources providing details of the project, advising that completion of the service evaluation questionnaire was deemed as valid consent to take part in the project, and that anonymous findings may be included in future publications.