Acknowledgements
Phase 1 of this project was funded by Barts and the London
NHS Trust – R&D Innovations Fund Pilot Project Grant Scheme. The
rest of the work forms part of a project funded by the National
Institute for Health Research, England through the Research for
Patient Benefit Programme, grant number PB-PG-0107-12209. The
views expressed are those of the authors.
This work could not have been done without our bilingual
researchers Zohra Khanam and Shazna Matin, the Barts and the
London Trust health advocates, administrative support from Carol
Dossett and involvement of the women who took part in the
survey. We should also like to thank the other members of the
project steering group and the staff of the Royal London Hospital
maternity unit and the Barkantine Birth Centre for their help and
support and Christine McCourt for invaluable advice in revising
the draft papers for submission. This project was linked to the
Birthplace in England Research Programme.