Footnotes

• Contributors All authors contributed to the final paper. All authors edited and proved the final submitted manuscript. CD and DG are guarantors of the paper.

• Funding A small amount of funding was available to provide secretarial and project support and to facilitate the arrangement of meetings. No direct payments were made to any participants. The vast majority of work was achieved through goodwill and collaboration between NHS Scotland and third sector organisations in addition to participants working within their own free time.

• Competing interests None.

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