Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank a number of people who have helped with this research and the production of this report. These include a range of experts in scaling and spread whom we had the benefit of consulting: David Albury, Suzie Bailey, Amanda Begley, Dan Berelowitz, Helen Bevan, Anna Burhouse, Alison Cracknell, Helen Crisp, David Fillingham, Aidan Fowler, Michael Hallsworth, Abigail Harrison, Axel Heitmueller, Anne Kilgallen, Tom Ling, Annie Laverty, Alison Lovatt, Michael McCooe, Ross Millar, Greg Nathan, Rozenn Perrigot, Julie Reed, Mike Richards, Brian Robson, Beverley Slater, Charles Tallack, Anna Watson, Mary Wells, Tom Woodcock, and particularly Mary Dixon-Woods, whose research over many years has done so much to develop our understanding of this field.

We would also like to extend special thanks to all of the Health Foundation grant holders and project teams we worked with during the course of this research, including Steve Ariss, Tania Barnes, Nick Blake, James Breakwell, Bridget Callaghan, Mercy Darty, Jessica Deighton, Paul Dodd, Tom Downes, Tim Draycott, Alastair Ferraro, James Findlay, Bev Fitzsimons, Hugh Gallagher, Colin Gelder, Andy Henwood, Michael Holland, Jocelyn Hopkins, Peter Lachman, Sonia Lee, Claire Morrissey, Michael Nation, Clare Peckham, Lesley Peers, Mike Reed, Alan Taylor, Helen Ward and Martin Wilkie.

Finally, we wish to thank our colleagues Jennifer Dixon, Tim Gardner, Sarah Henderson, Bryan Jones, Penny Pereira and Tracy Webb for their helpful comments and insights in producing this report. Particular thanks to Oli Smithson, Insight & Analysis Support Officer at the Health Foundation, for his assistance in conducting the survey and preparing the manuscript.

The views expressed in this report are those of the authors alone.

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