Trends in general practitioner dispensing of thickeners in the NHS England, 2019–24

• Arlene McCurtin ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Arlene McCurtin, Lindsey Collins, Owen Doody, Dervla Kelly, Tracy Lazenby-Paterson, Dominika Lisiecka, Alison Smith, Shaun O’Keeffe

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Arlene.mccutin@ul.ie

  Affiliations School of Allied Health, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland, Centre for Implementation Research (CIRcUL), University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0649-0448

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• Lindsey Collins ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Arlene McCurtin, Lindsey Collins, Owen Doody, Dervla Kelly, Tracy Lazenby-Paterson, Dominika Lisiecka, Alison Smith, Shaun O’Keeffe

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Applied Dementia Studies, University of Bradford, Bradford, United Kingdom

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• Owen Doody ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Arlene McCurtin, Lindsey Collins, Owen Doody, Dervla Kelly, Tracy Lazenby-Paterson, Dominika Lisiecka, Alison Smith, Shaun O’Keeffe

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Centre for Implementation Research (CIRcUL), University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland, Department of Nursing & Midwifery, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland

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• Dervla Kelly ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Arlene McCurtin, Lindsey Collins, Owen Doody, Dervla Kelly, Tracy Lazenby-Paterson, Dominika Lisiecka, Alison Smith, Shaun O’Keeffe

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Medicine, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland

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• Tracy Lazenby-Paterson ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Arlene McCurtin, Lindsey Collins, Owen Doody, Dervla Kelly, Tracy Lazenby-Paterson, Dominika Lisiecka, Alison Smith, Shaun O’Keeffe

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Intellectual Disabilities Service, NHS Lothian, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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• Dominika Lisiecka ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Arlene McCurtin, Lindsey Collins, Owen Doody, Dervla Kelly, Tracy Lazenby-Paterson, Dominika Lisiecka, Alison Smith, Shaun O’Keeffe

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Nursing and Healthcare Sciences, Munster Technological University - Kerry Campus, Tralee, Co Kerry, Ireland

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• Alison Smith ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Arlene McCurtin, Lindsey Collins, Owen Doody, Dervla Kelly, Tracy Lazenby-Paterson, Dominika Lisiecka, Alison Smith, Shaun O’Keeffe

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation NHS Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board - 06N, Tring, Essex, United Kingdom

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• Shaun O’Keeffe ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Arlene McCurtin, Lindsey Collins, Owen Doody, Dervla Kelly, Tracy Lazenby-Paterson, Dominika Lisiecka, Alison Smith, Shaun O’Keeffe

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Geriatric Medicine, Galway University Hospital, Galway, Ireland

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• on behalf of the Swallow Perspectives, Advocacy & Research Collective

  ¶Membership of the Swallow Perspectives, Advocacy and Research Collective (SPARC) is provided in the Acknowledgments.

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