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Article History

Received: 7 August 2024

Accepted: 21 November 2024

First Online: 22 January 2025

Declarations

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: According to the 2018 Australian Code for the Responsible Conduct of Research, this project has been reviewed by the Research Ethics and Integrity, The University of Queensland and is deemed to be exempt from ethics review under the National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Human Research and relevant University of Queensland policy (PPL 4.20.07). 2023/HE000291: Date of Exemption: 27 February 2023. This project was considered by the Executive Committee of the Metro North Health Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC) A (EC 00172). This project does not meet the NHMRC “National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Human Research” 2007 definition of research and is compliant with the NHMRC guidance “Ethical Considerations in Quality Assurance and Evaluation Activities” 2014. It is therefore exempt from full ethical review, and will not require a site-specific application, on the basis that this is a quality assurance project. The project received an ethics exemption dated 17th February 2023. All workshop stakeholders provided informed consent to participate in the study. No personally identifiable data was collected. Documentary evidence of consent is available.

: Not applicable.

: At the time of undertaking this project (completed October 2023), all authors declare they had no competing interests. It is noted that S McAvoy is a current member of the Sunshine Coast HHS Board (appointed April 2024).