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Kate F Walker, Eleanor J Mitchell, Susan Ayers, Nia W Jones, Reuben Ogollah, Natalie Wakefield, Jon Dorling, Phoebe Pallotti, Arani Pillai, Nicola Tempest, Rachel Plachcinski, Lucy Bradshaw, Marian Knight & Jim G Thornton.

Kate F Walker ^1,*, Eleanor J Mitchell ², Susan Ayers ³, Nia W Jones ¹, Reuben Ogollah ², Natalie Wakefield ², Jon Dorling ⁴, Phoebe Pallotti ⁵, Arani Pillai ⁶, Nicola Tempest ⁷, Rachel Plachcinski ⁸, Lucy Bradshaw ², Marian Knight ⁹, Jim G Thornton ¹

¹ Lifespan and Population Health Academic Unit, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
² Nottingham Clinical Trials Unit, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
³ Centre for Maternal and Child Health Research, School of Health Sciences, City, University of London, , London
⁴ Neonatal Unit, Southampton General Hospital, University Hospital Southampton NHS Trust, Southampton, UK
⁵ Department of Midwifery, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
⁶ Department of Anaesthetics, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Nottingham, UK
⁷ Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, UK
⁸ National Childbirth Trust, Northampton, UK
⁹ National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
^* Corresponding author Email: kate.walker@nottingham.ac.uk

Disclosure of interests

Full disclosure of interests: Completed ICMJE forms for all authors, including all related interests, are available in the toolkit on the NIHR Journals Library report publication page at https://doi.org/10.3310/KUYP6832.

Primary conflicts of interest: Susan Ayers reports grants from the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) outside the submitted work. Nia W Jones reports grants from NIHR Health Technology Assessment (HTA) during the conduct of the study. Jon Dorling reports grants from NIHR during the conduct of the study, and grants from NIHR, Canadian Institute of Health Research, Izaak Walton Killam and Nova Scotia Research outside the submitted work. Jon Dorling also reports membership of the following committees: HTA Efficient Study Designs (2015–16), HTA Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health Panel (2013–18) and HTA General Committee (2016–18). Rachel Plachcinski reports personal fees from University of Nottingham, outside the submitted work. Marian Knight reports grants from NIHR during the conduct of the study and membership of the following committees: HTA Remit and Competitiveness Group (2021 to present), HTA Prioritisation Committee B Methods Group (January 2021 to March 2022), HTA Funding Committee Policy Group (formerly Clinical Studies Group) (2021 to present), HTA Commissioning Committee (2021 to present) and HTA Programme Oversight Committee (2021 to present). Jim G Thornton reports membership of the NIHR HTA and Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation (EME) Editorial Board (2016–21).