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Received: 11 February 2022

Accepted: 19 July 2022

First Online: 1 August 2022

Declarations

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: Ethical approval was provided by the Northumbria University Health and Life Sciences ethics committee (reference 34401). Permission was granted by Healthworks to audit, evaluate and publish these data. Participants gave informed consent for Healthworks to store their data for monitoring and evaluation purposes. The academic team ensured that legal and ethical standards were met by performing the evaluation in collaboration with Healthworks and in accordance with guidance from the general data protection regulation (GDPR) (Article 89.1) and national institute for health science research UK (NIHR) (19). Where, the processing of healthcare data without consent is permitted for scientific or statistical reasons if data are anonymised and unidentifiable.

: Not applicable.

: MA and PC were employed by Healthworks during the period evaluated in this manuscript. Whilst MA and PC were involved in data collection and facilitated access to participant records, they were not involved in the data extraction or analysis. EJ, PO, SN, SG and AO have no competing interests to declare.