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Judith Smith, Jo Ellins, Chris Sherlaw-Johnson, Cecilia Vindrola-Padros, John Appleby, Stephen Morris, Jon Sussex & Naomi J Fulop.

Judith Smith ^1,*, Jo Ellins ¹, Chris Sherlaw-Johnson ², Cecilia Vindrola-Padros ³, John Appleby ², Stephen Morris ⁴, Jon Sussex ⁵, Naomi J Fulop ⁶

¹ Health Services Management Centre, School of Social Policy, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK
² Nuffield Trust, London, UK
³ Department of Targeted Intervention, University College London, London, UK
⁴ Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
⁵ RAND Europe, Westbrook Centre, Cambridge, UK
⁶ Department of Applied Health Research, University College London, London, UK
^* Corresponding author Email: j.a.smith.20@bham.ac.uk

Disclosure of interests of authors

Professor Judith Smith is Deputy Director of the Health and Social Care Delivery Research Programme (2020–present); co-investigator of the National Evaluation of Integrated Care and Support Pioneers (2015–22) funded by the NIHR Policy Research Programme; a member of the UKRI and NIHR College of Experts for COVID-19 Research Funding (2020–1); a member of the UKRI and DHSC Global Effort on COVID-19 College of Experts (2020); a member and Vice-Chair of the Commissioned Prioritisation Committee of the NIHR Health Services and Delivery Research Programme (2015–19); Trustee and Vice-Chair of Health Services Research UK; Non-Executive Director of the Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust (2014–22). Professor John Appleby is a Board member of the Race and Health Observatory. Professor Stephen Morris was formerly a member of the NIHR Health Services and Delivery Research (HS&DR) Programme Funding Committee (2014–16); the NIHR HS&DR Evidence Synthesis Sub Board (2016); the NIHR Unmet Need Sub Board; the NIHR HTA Clinical Evaluation and Trials Board (2007–9); the NIHR HTA Commissioning Board (2009–13); the NIHR PHR Research Funding Board (2011–17); and the NIHR PGfAR expert sub-panel (2015–19). Professor Naomi Fulop is an NIHR Senior Investigator and was a member of the NIHR HS&DR Programme Funding Committee (2013–18); HS&DR Evidence Synthesis Sub Board (2016); UKRI and NIHR College of Experts Research Funding (2020). She is the UCL-nominated Non-Executive Director for Whittington Health NHS Trust (2018–24); a Non-Executive Director of the organisation COVID-19 Bereaved Families for Justice. She was a Trustee of Health Services Research UK (to November 2022). The remaining authors have no competing interests to declare.