Results
The initial 10 November 2020 email to 3292 intervention arm practices from 133 CCGs reached 2679 GP practices. The subsequent reminder emails on 25 November and 10 December 2020 reached 2870 GP practices (Fig. Germ Defence trial CONSORT flow diagramData show that the Germ Defence website was viewed by patients from 16% of the intervention arm general practices approached as part of the trial. This is based on analysis of website analytics for the usage data which suggest that 10 + clicks were registered for 459 of the 2870 general practices offered in the intervention. A full consort diagram is presented in Fig. 