This paper reports on midwives' support needs as they were described by midwives in a large study of the supervision of midwives in England. The data are derived from six sites: five, very different, National Health Service (NHS) sites, and one composed of midwives outside the NHS. In-depth, ethnographic interviews were conducted with 168 midwives and a grounded theory approach was used for the...

The public reporting of patient outcomes is crucial for quality improvement and informing choice. However, outcome in radiotherapy, despite being a major component cancer control, extremely sparse globally. Public has many challenges, including difficulties defining meaningful measures treatment quality, limitations data infrastructure, fragmented health insurance schemes. National Prostate Can...

This article documents an experience of translating research into the real-world of the National Health Service (NHS) in the England. Transferring new knowledge from research is problematic particularly when negotiating within the context of the changing NHS England. An overview of the pitfalls/challenges and some of the tried and tested methods which were designed to overcome these is provided...

BACKGROUND Proposals to establish an occupational health service for primary care should be informed by knowledge of the health needs of general practice employees. AIM To determine the prevalence and occupational correlates of stress, anxiety, and depression among practice managers in two contrasting health authorities in England. METHOD A postal questionnaire, soliciting information about...

BACKGROUND There is consensus about the importance of 'recovery' in mental health services, but the link between recovery orientation of mental health teams and personal recovery of individuals has been underresearched. AIMS To investigate differences in team leader, clinician and service user perspectives of recovery orientation of community adult mental health teams in England. METHOD In ...

Molecular Haematology, Division of Cancer Studies, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom; Department of Haematological Medicine, King’s College Hospital National Health Service (NHS) Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom; Division of Health and Social Care, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom; National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centre, Guy’s a...

Over the past 10 years, UK National Health Service (NHS) and Government have suggested substantial changes to scope substance of Mental Act following a limited revision in 2007. The overall premise proposed reform was not just modernisation mental health legislation but, more importantly, provision high-quality care least restrictive environment. 1 Department Social CareReforming (Open Consulta...

The paper investigates the short run responsiveness of National Health Service (NHS) nurses’ labour supply to changes in wages of NHS nurses relative to wages in outside options available to nurses, utilising the panel data aspect of the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings. We find the short run responsiveness of NHS nurses’ labour supply to the relative wage of NHS nurses is positive and stati...

OBJECTIVES This study assessed whether the 14 National Health Service (NHS) acute trusts reviewed by Sir Bruce Keogh in July 2013 were performance outliers on the Acute Trust Quality Dashboard (ATQD) and examined whether high mortality indices results are associated with increased numbers of quality risk alerts and alarms. DESIGN The proportion of dashboard indicators rated amber or red in th...

J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 2006: 32(4) Background At least 50% of pregnancies in the UK are unplanned and approximately one-fifth of conceptions end in legal abortion despite over 70% of women in the age range 16–49 years using some form of contraception.1 Despite free availability of family planning services in the UK, unplanned and unwanted pregnancies remain a public policy issue. It is ...