Bell, Jennifer L. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9571-0715
Hardy, Pollyanna
Greenland, Melanie
Juszczak, Edmund
Cole, Christina
Maheshwari, Abha
Bhattacharya, Siladitya
Linsell, Louise
Funding for this research was provided by:
Health Technology Assessment Programme (13/115/82)
Article History
Received: 16 January 2020
Accepted: 23 May 2020
First Online: 30 June 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The trial has approval from the North of Scotland Research Ethics Committee, reference 15/NS/0114. The trial is sponsored by the University of Aberdeen and NHS Grampian.
: Not applicable.
: EJ was a member of the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Commissioning Board (November 2013 to July 2016) and subsequently the General Board (November 2016 to July 2017). Presently (from November 2019) EJ sits on the Funding Committee for the NIHR/NHS England partnership scheme. EJ also reports funding from NIHR for the trial and reports receipt of funding from NIHR, outside the submitted work. All other authors have no competing interests.