Goldthorpe, Joanna http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7839-7544
Sanders, Caroline
Macey, Richard
Gough, Lesley
Rogers, Jean
Tickle, Martin
Pretty, Iain
Funding for this research was provided by:
Health Services and Delivery Research Programme (11/1022/15)
Article History
Received: 16 April 2018
Accepted: 26 July 2018
First Online: 20 August 2018
Ethical approval and consent to participate
: This study was granted approval by NHS Research Ethics Committee (Grampian) Reference 13/NS/0141. All participants provided informed written or verbal (audio recorded) consent (based on whether they took part in face to face or telephone based interviews and approved by the Research Ethics Committee) prior to taking part in the study and permission was granted for use of anonymous quotes.
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: Iain Pretty is involved with the delivery of referral management services to NHS England for which he receives financial reward. He was involved with the development of early pilot models in referral management at NHS Trafford and in the evaluation of the IOSN tool. This work represents part of a larger study, which took place over 4 years and has already been published [CitationRef removed]
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