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.