TY - JOUR T1 - Bureaucracy, trust and time: recruitment in a low-risk study of paediatric protocols forchildren who miss medicalappointments JF - Archives of Disease in Childhood JO - Arch Dis Child SP - 786 LP - 787 DO - 10.1136/archdischild-2017-313175 VL - 102 IS - 8 AU - Helen M Roberts AU - Terence J Stephenson AU - Lisa Arai Y1 - 2017/08/01 UR - http://adc.bmj.com/content/102/8/786.abstract N2 - As Roe et al 1 point out, failing to ensure access to paediatric appointments has implications for a range of outcomes, including safeguarding. Here we report challenges we experienced in finding out from the frontline how protocols intended to address this problem are experienced on the ground.Following our did not attend (DNA)2 3 studies, we reviewed recruitment notes on our attempts to talk to people tasked with producing or implementing these protocols. After speedy institutional ethics review, we required research and development (R&D) approval from each trust where we had identified a relevant DNA protocol in order to ask potential interviewees if we could talk to them. R&D contacts were helpful but risk-averse. Challenges included … ER -