Magadi, Winnie
Lightfoot, Courtney J.
Memory, Katherine E.
Santhakumaran, Shalini
van der Veer, Sabine N.
Thomas, Nicola
Gair, Rachel
Smith, Alice C.
Article History
Received: 8 March 2021
Accepted: 13 January 2022
First Online: 26 January 2022
Declarations
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: The UKRR holds permissions under s251 of the NHS Act 2006, to gather, process, and share confidential patient information for the purposes of audit and research. These permissions are renewed annually by the Health Research Authority’s Confidentiality Advisory Group. The collection and analysis of the data for research were carried out under the ethical permissions granted to the UKRR by the Research Ethics Committee. The completed questionnaires were submitted directly to the UKRR where they were linked with demographic data held by the UKRR. Once the linked dataset was created, it was analysed by a statistician employed by the UKRR. The aggregated results of these analyses were then sent to the research team for interpretation and inclusion in the final publication. Informed consent was received through implicit consent processes. All participants implicitly consented to their data being used for research purposes by the completing and returning the questionnaire. All methods were carried out in accordance with relevant guidelines and regulations.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.