Purpose – The National Health Service (NHS) Local Improvement Finance Trust (LIFT) programme was launched in 2001 as an innovative public‐private partnership to address the historical under‐investment in local primary care facilities in England. The organisations from the public and...

There is a growing global market in healthcare and patients. And while there is a small body of evidence emerging around this phenomenon commonly known as medical tourism there remain significant unanswered policy and research questions which need to be addressed. We outline some of the key...

Background This study aims to explore the views of women concerning their choice of long-acting method of contraception. Method. Two-hundred and eighty-six women who had either been sterilised or fittedwith an etonorgestrel(ETN) implant or the levonorgestrel intrauterine system (LNG IUS) were...