A case study evaluation of implementation of a care pathway to support normal birth in one English birth centre: anticipated benefits and unintended consequences

Abstract Background The policy drive for the UK National Health Service (NHS) has focused on the need for high quality services informed by evidence of best practice.The introduction of care pathways and protocols to standardise care and support implementation of evidence into practice has taken place across the NHS with limited evaluation of their

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A View to Distant Hills: Essaying a Grievous Self

This is a personal essay that Wireless Chargers attempts (essays) to understand my repeated contemplation of two landscape paintings in the wake of a bereavement.I have gathered together into a fragmented narrative thoughts and impressions provoked by the paintings and by readings of poetry (Czeslaw Milosz), fiction (Samuel Beckett) and psychoanaly

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