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Janet A Wilson, Tony Fouweather, Deborah D Stocken, Tara Homer, Catherine Haighton, Nikki Rousseau, James O’Hara, Luke Vale, Rebecca Wilson, Sonya Carnell, Scott Wilkes, Jill Morrison, Kim Ah-See, Sean Carrie, Claire Hopkins, Nicola Howe, Musheer Hussain, Lyndsay Lindley, Kenneth MacKenzie, Lorraine McSweeney, Hisham Mehanna, Christopher Raine, Ruby Smith Whelan, Frank Sullivan, Alexander von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff & Dawn Teare.

Janet A Wilson ^1,*, Tony Fouweather ¹, Deborah D Stocken ², Tara Homer ¹, Catherine Haighton ³, Nikki Rousseau ², James O’Hara ⁴, Luke Vale ¹, Rebecca Wilson ⁵, Sonya Carnell ⁵, Scott Wilkes ⁶, Jill Morrison ⁷, Kim Ah-See ⁸, Sean Carrie ⁴, Claire Hopkins ⁹, Nicola Howe ⁵, Musheer Hussain ¹⁰, Lyndsay Lindley ¹¹, Kenneth MacKenzie ¹², Lorraine McSweeney ¹, Hisham Mehanna ¹³, Christopher Raine ¹⁴, Ruby Smith Whelan ⁵, Frank Sullivan ¹⁵, Alexander von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff ⁵, Dawn Teare ¹

¹ Population Health Sciences Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
² Leeds Institute of Clinical Trials Research, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
³ Department of Social Work, Education and Community Wellbeing, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
⁴ Ear, Nose and Throat Department, Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
⁵ Newcastle Clinical Trials Unit, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
⁶ School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences and Wellbeing, University of Sunderland, Sunderland, UK
⁷ Senate Office, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
⁸ Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, NHS Grampian, Aberdeen, UK
⁹ Ear, Nose and Throat and Head and Neck Department, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
¹⁰ School of Medicine, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK
¹¹ Social Policy Research Unit, University of York, York, UK
¹² Department of Ear, Nose and Throat Surgery, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Glasgow, UK
¹³ Institute of Head and Neck Studies and Education, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
¹⁴ Ear, Nose and Throat Department, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Bradford, UK
¹⁵ Population and Behavioural Science Division, School of Medicine, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK
^* Corresponding author Email: janet.wilson@newcastle.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/YKUR3660.

Primary conflicts of interest:Catherine Haighton reports being a member of the College of Experts National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) call for COVID Recovery and Learning Research (2020–present), the NIHR Programme Grants for Applied Research Sub Committee (2019–present) and the NIHR Research for Patient Benefit Programme North East Regional Funding Committee (2010–14). Luke Vale reports being a member of the NIHR Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Programme Clinical Trials and Evaluation Panel (2015–18). Musheer Hussain reports that he was chairperson of the most recent Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network guideline on ‘Management of sore throat and indications for Tonsillectomy’ (2010) and chairperson of the Scottish Otolaryngology Society (ENT-Scotland) committee on ‘Should Reusable equipment for Tonsillectomy be abandoned?’ (2014). Hisham Mehanna reports personal fees from Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation (Kenilworth, NJ, USA), Sanofi Pasteur (Lyon, France) and Merck (Darmstadt, Germany); grants from GlaxoSmithKleine Biologicals (Brentford, UK), AstraZeneca (Cambridge, UK) and GSK PLC; directorship and employment from Warwickshire Head Neck Clinic Ltd; and travel and accommodation expenses from MSD, outside the submitted work. Professor Mehanna also reports being a member of the HTA Technology Assessment Clinical Evaluation and Trials Board (2013–18) and a member of the HTA Unit Interventional Technologies Panel (2009–18). Frank Sullivan reports being a member of the Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation (EME) Strategy Advisory Committee (2018–19), the EME Funding Committee (2016–19) and the EME Funding Committee Sub-group Remit and Comp Check (2018–19).