Footnotes

• Declaration The membership of the 2007 and 2012 BACPR Standards and Core Components’ development groups embody many professional associations working within CR services or allied professional organisations in the UK. The individual members of the development groups, working under the auspices of the BACPR, express no conflict of interests regarding the material contained in this publication.

• Contributors All authors have made a substantial contribution to the following: conception and design, acquisition of data or analysis and interpretation of data, drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content, and will be involved in the final approval of the version published. Each author has participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for appropriate portions of the content.

• Competing interests None.

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