Filipe, Luís
Piroddi, Roberta
Baker, Wes
Rafferty, Joe
Buchan, Iain
Barr, Ben
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institute for Health and Care Research (MHF106, NIHR205131)
National Institute for Health and Care Research Policy Research Programme (NIHR202484)
Article History
Received: 16 May 2024
Accepted: 23 October 2024
First Online: 8 November 2024
Declarations
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: The results in this manuscript are informed by the analysis of anonymised secondary data held by NHS Cheshire & Merseyside and approved by their Data Access and Asset Group. Only anonymised secondary data were used. No personal data was used in this study and as such, there is no requirement for research ethics committee review.
: The authors declared the following potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: Wes Baker and Joe Rafferty are employed by Mersey Care NHS foundation Trust, the provider of district nursing services in Liverpool. They were involved in providing information about the nature of district nursing services and staffing in Liverpool, facilitating access to data, as well as providing contextual information for the interpretation of the results, reviewing drafts of the manuscript. They had no role in the analysis or presentation of the results. The views expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not represent the views of Mersey Care NHS foundation Trust. There are no other relationships or activities that could appear to have influenced the submitted work.