Rodrigues, Angela M.
Haste, Anna
Penn, Linda
Bell, Ruth
Summerbell, Carolyn
White, Martin
Adamson, Ashley J.
Sniehotta, Falko F.
Funding for this research was provided by:
School for Public Health Research (IS-SPH-0211-10016)
Article History
Received: 1 March 2019
Accepted: 26 March 2020
First Online: 15 April 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: We obtained NHS ethical approval and Health Research Authority research governance agreements for stakeholder interviews (IRAS number 190418). Consent forms were received electronically from all interviewees prior to the interview. Where written consent was not possible/convenient for participants, informed verbal (audio recording) consent was obtained from the participants, and recorded separately from the interview audio recording. This procedure for verbal consent was approved by NHS ethical review and Health Research Authority research governance (IRAS number 190418).
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests. MW and RB hold honorary consultant in public health posts with PHE. MW is programme director for the PHR programme at NIHR. Otherwise there are no financial relationships with any organisations that might have an interest in the submitted work and no other relationships or activities that could appear to have influenced the submitted work. The NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme, on which this independent research study was conducted, was funded by a partnership of NHS England, Public Health England and Diabetes UK. Research governance procedures were agreed and implemented before the study reported here commenced, to ensure the independence of our research. During the research period, we regularly reported to the NIHR SPHR and provided executive summaries, with recommendations resulting from these formative evaluations that were made available to the NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme Management Group.