Footnotes

• Contributors AB is a GPST4 and NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow in Primary Care. PO is academic supervisor to AB. PO and SRK designed the service evaluation pilot with advice from EC and WM; AB, HL and SRK collected and analysed the data. WM counselled students requiring treatment. AB and PO drafted and revised the article, and all authors approved the final version. AB is a guarantor.

• Funding NIHR Research for Patient Benefit Programme, PB-PG-1014-35007.

• Competing interests PO is a member of the NIHR South London Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care. PO and EC are members of the esti2 consortium funded under the UKCRC Translational Infection Research Initiative supported by the Medical Research Council (Grant Number G0901608) with contributions from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, the National Institute for Health Research.

• Ethics approval London-Bromley REC reference 15/LO/1929. Approval Number: IRAS Project ID 188077.

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

• Data sharing statement A complete breakdown of the data is available from AB.