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Health care professionals' views about safety in maternity services

Author:

Smith, Alex, The King's Fund, and Dixon, Anna

Publication date:

2007

Abstract:

This study explores health care professionals' views about safety in maternity services. It identifies aspects of care that are less safe than they should be, possible ways to improve safety and potential obstacles to achieving these improvements.
Patient choice : how patients choose and how providers respond.

Author:

Burge, Peter, The King's Fund, Office of Health Economics, Devlin, Nancy, Dixon, Anna, Magee, Helen, Appleby, John, Robertson, Ruth, RAND Europe, and Picker Institute Europe

Publication date:

2010

Abstract:

The policy of offering patients a choice in where they receive hospital treatment was intended to create competition between providers, encouraging efficiency and responsiveness to patients’ preferences and ultimately to drive up the quality of care. So has the policy met those aims? Since January 2006, patients requiring a referral ...