Winter, Joanne R.
Stagg, Helen R.
Smith, Colette J.
Lalor, Maeve K.
Davidson, Jennifer A.
Brown, Alison E.
Brown, James
Zenner, Dominik
Lipman, Marc
Pozniak, Anton
Abubakar, Ibrahim
Delpech, Valerie
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institute for Health Research (PDF-2014-07-008, SRF-2011-04-001, NF-SI-0616-10037)
Article History
Received: 31 July 2017
Accepted: 7 May 2018
First Online: 7 June 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This analysis was approved by the UCL student Research Ethics Committee (5683/001). Patient consent was not required, as PHE has authority under the Health and Social Care Act 2012 to hold and analyse national surveillance data for public health and research purposes.
: HRS reports grants from the National Institute of Health Research, outside the submitted work. CJS reports personal fees from Gilead and Janssen, outside the submitted work. AP is chair of the BHIVA guidelines committee. All other authors declare that they have no competing interests.
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