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Bond, Christine M.
Holland, Richard
Alldred, David P.
Arthur, Antony
Barton, Garry
Birt, Linda
Blyth, Annie
Desborough, James
Ford, Joanna
Handford, Christine
Hill, Helen
Hughes, Carmel M.
Maskrey, Vivienne
Massey, Kate
Myint, Phyo K.
Norris, Nigel
Poland, Fiona M.
Shepstone, Lee
Zermansky, Arnold
Wright, David
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institute for Health Research (RP-PG-0613-20007)
Article History
Received: 30 September 2019
Accepted: 18 March 2020
First Online: 29 May 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study has been approved by both the East of England Research Ethics Committee (REC) and the Scottish REC. Approval in both countries was required because of differences in national laws for involving subjects lacking capacity to consent. Research and development approvals have also been secured as necessary for all NHS organisational units involved. All subsequent amendments are submitted as necessary to the relevant committee and not enacted until approval awarded. All participants were formally invited and consented in line with the processes described previosuly.
: No individual person’s data in any form is included in this manuscript. In the reporting of the findings from the process evaluation anonymised quotes may be used. Consent for this has been confirmed.
: None of the investigators, grant holders or any of the research team members has any financial or competing interests.