Current research includes: co-leading organisational case studies in Birthplace in England, a national study of birth outcomes in home, midwife led, and
obstetric led
units; investigating the relationship between measures of safety climate and health care quality in A and E and intrapartum care; and conducting nested process
evaluations of two trials of obesity in pregnancy behavioural interventions.
For the purposes of this economic
evaluation, the forms were initially used in a related study funded by the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) research for patient benefit programme «assessing the impact of a new birth centre on choice and outcome of maternity care in an inner city area,» which will be reported in full elsewhere, comparing the costs of care in a free standing midwifery
unit with care in an
obstetric unit in the same trust.16 The data collected included details of staffing levels, treatments, surgeries, diagnostic imaging tests, scans, drugs, and other resource inputs associated with each stage of the pathway through intrapartum and after birth care.