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Staff Competence and Program Compliance: Scotland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2009

Marion H. Hall
Marion H. Hall
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University of Aberdeen
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In Britain, antenatal care is performed by specialist obstetricians, general practitioners (GPs), and midwives, often in combination. Because most women are delivered in specialist hospitals, obstetricians are involved in booking for place of delivery, and usually in delivery of specialized investigations such as ultrasonic scanning. General practitioners may independently book women for confinement under their care in Cottage Hospitals or (rarely) at home, and may provide all the medical care for those women, in addition to sharing in the antenatal care of women to be delivered at specialist units, and in fact doing most of the care for these women, unless they are very high risk or complicated.

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The Setting of the Problem
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International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care , Volume 8 , Supplement S1 , January 1992 , pp. 8 - 12
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992

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