Brown, Nicole L.
Pritchard, Susan
Harkness, Elaine F.
Lim, Yit
Gandhi, Ashu
Evans, Dafydd Gareth
Howell, Anthony
Howell, Sacha J.
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institute for Health Research Manchester Biomedical Research Centre (NIHR203308, NIHR203308, NIHR203308)
Article History
Received: 7 June 2024
Revised: 25 October 2024
Accepted: 1 December 2024
First Online: 18 December 2024
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: The project and the analyses undertaken was approved by Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust as a service evaluation (reference number S257). As a service evaluation informed consent from individual participants was not required and service evaluation in England is exempt from ethics committee review (Health Research Authority Guidance; ). Participant confidentiality was maintained at all times with pseudo-anonymised data employed if data were transferred outside of the host institution servers, for example to University of Manchester for statistical analysis.