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Simon Thomson, Gemma Ainsworth, Senthil Selvanathan, Rachel Kelly, Howard Collier, Ruben Mujica-Mota, Rebecca Talbot, Sarah Tess Brown, Julie Croft, Nikki Rousseau, Ruchi Higham, Yahia Al-Tamimi, Neil Buxton, Nicholas Carleton-Bland, Martin Gledhill, Victoria Halstead, Peter Hutchinson, James Meacock, Nitin Mukerji, Debasish Pal, Armando Vargas-Palacios, Anantharaju Prasad, Martin Wilby & Deborah Stocken.

Simon Thomson ^1,*, Gemma Ainsworth ², Senthil Selvanathan ¹, Rachel Kelly ², Howard Collier ², Ruben Mujica-Mota ³, Rebecca Talbot ², Sarah Tess Brown ², Julie Croft ², Nikki Rousseau ², Ruchi Higham ², Yahia Al-Tamimi ⁴, Neil Buxton ⁵, Nicholas Carleton-Bland ⁵, Martin Gledhill ⁶, Victoria Halstead ⁷, Peter Hutchinson ⁸, James Meacock ¹, Nitin Mukerji ⁹, Debasish Pal ¹, Armando Vargas-Palacios ³, Anantharaju Prasad ¹⁰, Martin Wilby ⁵, Deborah Stocken ²

¹ Department of Neurosurgery, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, UK
² Clinical Trials Research Unit, Leeds Institute of Clinical Trials Research, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
³ Leeds Institute of Health Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
⁴ Department of Neurosurgery, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals    NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield, UK
⁵ Department of Neurosurgery, The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, UK
⁶ Department of Speech and Language Therapy, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, UK
⁷ Department of Social Sciences, Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, UK
⁸ Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation     Trust, Cambridge, UK
⁹ Department of Neurosurgery, The James Cook University Hospital, South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Middlesbrough, UK
¹⁰ Department of Neurosurgery, Royal Preston Hospital, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Preston, UK
^* Corresponding author Email: simon.thomson1@nhs.net

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/OTOH7720.

Primary conflicts of interest: Peter Hutchinson declares participation in the Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Intellectual Property Panel (2016–8) and in HTA Prioritisation Committee B (in hospital, 2016–22). Deborah Stocken declares membership of the Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation (EME) Funding Committee (2020–present).