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Received: 8 August 2024

Accepted: 31 January 2025

First Online: 5 March 2025

Declarations

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: The study was reviewed and received a favourable opinion from the Imperial College Research Ethics Committee (ICREC # 21IC6770). All the data generated or analysed during this study complies with the principles of the Helsinki Declaration and are included in this published article. Informed consent to participate was obtained from all of the participants in the study. Potential respondents were given information about the purpose of the survey, and asked “ Do you consent to take part in this survey?… Yes/No”. See supplementary file (survey). If they responded Yes, they were able to complete the questionnaire. The right of the participant to refuse to participate without giving reasons was respected. Participants were free to withdraw at any time and without giving reasons. Participants were notified of the publication plans and reminded that all their data were pseudonymised.

: Not applicable.

: The authors declare no competing interests.

: Co-author’s Sonia Richardson and and John Norton were public partners of Imperial College, School of Public Health, The National Institute for Health Research Applied Research Collaboration for Northwest London. Both were lay researchers and brought their direct and indirect experience of living with and caring for others who had multimorbidity to the development and analysis of study data.