Funding for this research was provided by:
Programme Grants for Applied Research (RP-PG-0610-10066)
Article History
Received: 1 June 2018
Accepted: 26 February 2019
First Online: 28 March 2019
Authors’ information
: LP: Researcher and PhD Student; JS: Professor of Behavioural Medicine in Nursing; SdS Honorary Patient Expert; HL: Reader in Medical Sociology.
: Approval for the patient sub study was obtained from the West London & GTAC Research Ethics Committee (Reference: 13/LO/1308) on 3rd December 2014. Informed written consent was obtained from all the patients participating in the study. The interviews with practitioners were considered service evaluation, therefore, ethical approval was not required for these.
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