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Received: 7 February 2018

Accepted: 25 June 2018

First Online: 3 July 2018

Authors’ information

: JPB is a clinical academic research fellow at the University of Dundee and Lead for Allied Health Professions Research at NHS Tayside. She is an HCPC-registered occupational therapist and an experienced qualitative researcher, with an interest in innovative methods and implementation research.CG is a specialist diabetes dietitian working at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHSF Trust. She has expertise in developing diabetes structured education programmes and is an experienced diabetes educator.NdZ is a senior clinical psychologist working at King’s College Hospital, London. She has expertise in working with people with long-term conditions, including diabetes, developing interventions to promote behaviour change and providing training for healthcare professionals.JL is a professor of Health and Social Science at the Usher Institute for Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh. She oversees a programme of qualitative research which mostly coheres around clinical trials.DR is a research fellow at the Usher Institute for Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh. He is an experienced qualitative researcher who has specialised in diabetes research for the last 10 years.EC is a research associate at the Sheffield Clinical Trials Research Unit, in the School of Health and Related Research at the University of Sheffield. She is an experienced qualitative researcher in health services research.

: Ethical approval for the qualitative study was granted by the Usher Research Ethics Group (UREG) at the University of Edinburgh.

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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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