Footnotes

• Handling editor Jackie Cassell.

• Contributors AB is a GPST3 and Academic Clinical Fellow in Primary Care. PO is academic supervisor to AB. PEH designed the service evaluation pilot; AB collected the data and analysed it. Both AB and PO drafted and revised the paper and all authors approved the final version. AB is a guarantor.

• Competing interests None declared.

• Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.

• Data sharing statement A complete breakdown of the data is available to anyone who would find it useful. Please contact AB.