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1. Has the medicalisation of childbirth gone too far? (Education and Debate)

Author

Johanson, Richard, Newburn, Mary, and Macfarlane, Alison

Subjects
Childbirth -- Analysis, Health, Analysis
Abstract

Over the past few centuries childbirth has become increasingly influenced by medical technology, and now medical intervention is the norm in most Western countries. Richard Johanson and colleagues argue here [...]

Published
2002

2. What happens when the private sector plans hospital services for the NHS: three case studies under the private finance initiative

Author

Pollock, Allyson M., Dunnigan, Matthew, Gaffney, Declan, Macfarlane, Alison, and Majeed, F. Azeem

Subjects
United Kingdom. National Health Service -- Finance, Private sector -- Investments, Hospitals -- Finance, Health, Company financing, Company investment, Finance, Investments
Abstract

We aim to promote efficiency, to improve services and to stimulate fresh flows of investment. We want to harness the private sector's management expertise and resources, bringing a new approach [...]

Published
1997

3. Choosing between home and hospital delivery

Author

Young, Gavin, Macfarlane, Alison, McCandlish, Rona, Campbell, Rona, Chamberlain, Geoffrey, and Drife, James

Subjects
Prenatal care -- Health aspects -- Safety and security measures, Childbirth -- Health aspects -- Safety and security measures, Hospitals -- Health aspects -- United Kingdom, Childbirth at home -- Safety and security measures -- Health aspects, Health, Safety and security measures, Health aspects
Abstract

Home birth in Britain can be safe EDITOR--Drife's assertion that hospital birth is three times as safe as planned home birth is misleading.[1] Since the study groups were dissimilar it [...]

Published
2000

4. Identifying problems with data collection at a local level: survey of NHS maternity units in England

Author

Kenney, Natalie and Macfarlane, Alison

Subjects
Information services industry, Information services, Hospitals, Gynecologic and obstetric, Information storage and retrieval systems, Medicine, Health, Information services industry
Abstract

Abstract Objectives To document the extent to which maternity data are collected and how they are recorded, and to identify problems that may affect their availability throughout the NHS. Methods [...]

Published
1999

6. At last - maternity statistics for England

Author

Macfarlane, Alison

Subjects
England -- Health aspects, Childbirth -- Statistics -- Health aspects, Health, Statistics, Health aspects
Abstract

After a long gestation the Department of Health has finally delivered a bulletin on maternity statistics.[1] Few routine data on maternity care in England have been published since 1985, the [...]

Published
1998

7. Trial would not answer key question, but data monitoring should be improved

Author

Macfarlane, Alison

Subjects
Obstetrical research -- Planning, Childbirth at home -- Evaluation, Health, Company business planning, Planning, Evaluation
Abstract

To ask whether there should be a trial of home versus hospital delivery puts the cart before the horse, by proposing a method before deciding on the question that needs [...]

Published
1996

8. Choice and chance in low risk maternity care: general practitioner obstetrics back on the agenda

Author

Campbell, Rona, MacFarlane, Alison, and Cavenagh, Sandy

Subjects
United Kingdom -- Social policy, Maternal health services -- Evaluation -- Supply and demand, Physicians (General practice) -- Supply and demand, Health, Evaluation, Social policy, Supply and demand
Abstract

'Will I still have a choice about where I have my baby? Yes.'[1] Despite claims that 'under the new arrangements...popular cottage hospitals will thrive'[2] closures of small maternity units continue [...]

Published
1991

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