Acknowledgment
We thank all the women who participated in this trial; Participating
Centres: University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Sandwell
and West Birmingham NHS Trust, London North West University Healthcare
NHS Trust, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, University
Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust, The Shrewsbury and
Telford Hospital NHS Trust, The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, East
Cheshire NHS Trust and University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire;
the research nurses who assisted in data collection: Anne Rutland, Laura
Butler, Harriet Goddard, Jeanette Brown, Sam Stafford, Rupa Modi, Alison
Tilley, Katy English, Elena Michael, Sally Potts, Vanda carter, Emily
Eaton, Sharon Rudge, Lisa Hardstaff, Lesley Wilkinson, Pauline Kelly and
Kay Sanders; the Senior nurse specialist: Kathy Abernethy; trial
pharmacists; Yin May Chin, Rahima Khatun, Matilda Lans, Alexis Spratt,
Jill Lyons, Pattrick Lisbett, Ann Adams, Renee Poulsom, Gurminder
Sahota, Julie Whitehead, Mojid Khan; CRCTU staff: Claire Gaunt (Team
Leader), Cassandra Brookes (senior statistician), Yolande
Jefferson-Hulme (senior trial coordinator), Rachel Blundred (senior
trial coordinator), Julie Joseph (trial coordinator) and Dalbir Kaur
(trial coordinator); Trial Steering Committee: David Sturdee (chair),
Adele Francis, Kulsum Jaffer, Jocelyn Bell, Sean Jennings, Elizabeth
Benns and Elizabeth Mortlock; Data Monitoring Committee: Saad Amer
(chair), Kanna Jayaprakasan and Karen Thomas; and all those not
otherwise mentioned above who have contributed to the trial.