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"Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participate: The study was approved by the West London Audit Committee (project number 1775) as service evaluation; for this reason, the need for written patient consent was waived, however, all the study participants provided an informed verbal consent to treatment, which was documented in the electronic records.Consent for publication: Not applicable.Author contributions:Sofia Pappa: Conceptualisation; Data curation; Methodology; Project administration; Supervision; Writing – original draft; Writing – review & editing.Arturas Kalniunas: Formal analysis; Methodology; Project administration; Resources; Software; Visualisation; Writing – original draft; Writing – review & editing.Hitendra Sharma: Data curation; Investigation; Writing – review & editing.Ali Raza-Syed: Data curation; Investigation; Project administration; Validation; Writing – review & editing.Manzar Kamal: Data curation; Investigation; Project administration; Validation; Writing – review & editing.Fintan Larkin: Data curation; Investigation; Project administration; Validation; Writing – review & editing.Funding: The authors received no financial support for the research, authorship and/or publication of this article.Competing interests: S.P. reports grants and honoraria outside the submitted work. Other authors have nothing to declare.Availability of data materials: Not applicable. Competing interests: S.P. reports grants and honoraria outside the submitted work. Other authors have nothing to declare."

"Funding: The authors received no financial support for the research, authorship and/or publication of this article."