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Authors
Roche, Rachel https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5929-3616
Simmons, Ruth
Crawshaw, Alison F.
Fisher, Pip
Pareek, Manish
Morton, Will
Shryane, Theresa
Poole, Kristina
Verma, Arpana
Campos-Matos, Ines
Mandal, Sema
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Funding
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institute for Health Research (Health Protection Research Unit in Blood Borne and Sexually Transmitted Infections, PDF-2015-08-102)
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Article History
Received: 27 February 2020
Accepted: 14 December 2020
First Online: 11 February 2021
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: this project was subject to an internal review by the Research Support and Governance Office in PHE to ensure that it was fully compliant the NHS Research Governance Framework for Health and Social Care (April 2005), and with all other current regulatory requirements. The review also covered all ethical considerations. The study was categorized as a service evaluation, and as no ethical issues had been identified it was decided that review by an ethics committee would not be necessary. This is in accordance with the revised guidance in the Governance Arrangements for Research Ethics Committees (GAfREC) that was released in September 2011. Online surveys typically do not require consent; information was given to the participants about the survey before completion, with the completion of any of the questions taken as consent.
: Not applicable as no sensitive personal information was collected.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
