Giebel, Clarissa http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0746-0566
Eastham, Cassie
Cannon, Jacqueline
Wilson, John
Wilson, Janet
Pearson, Anna
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institute for Health Research (ARC NWC)
Article History
Received: 18 January 2019
Accepted: 24 February 2020
First Online: 6 March 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The Health Research Authority decision tool (HRA 2018) was used to determine that the project was a service evaluation and not research. As such, ethical opinion was not sought from a REC, however the service evaluation was registered with the Research and Development Department at North West Boroughs Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. According to the UK Policy Framework for Health and Social Care Research, service evaluations are not considered research as such and therefore do not require ethical approval from an ethics committee. Participants provided written informed consent prior to the interview.
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