Png, May Ee
Harris, Victoria
Hobbs, F. D. Richard
Little, Paul
Yu, Ly-Mee
Butler, Christopher C.
Petrou, Stavros
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institute for Health and Care Research (MC_PC_19079)
Article History
Received: 6 January 2026
Accepted: 23 July 2026
First Online: 1 August 2026
Declarations
Ethics approval and consent to participate: This trial received approval from the UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency and the South Central-Berkshire Research Ethics Committee (Ref:20/SC/0158). All participants provided written informed consent to participate in the trial. No additional ethical approval was required for this secondary economic analysis of anonymised trial data.
Consent for publication: Not applicable.
Competing interests: CCB was the chief investigator of the trial. FDRH and CCB report grants from UKRI, during the conduct of the study. All other authors have no competing interests to declare.