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Phase 3 - Scottish Programme for Clinical Effectiveness in Reproductive Health

Project objective

To improve health outcomes for women and their families throughout Scotland by promoting more uniform standards of high quality, evidence-based reproductive healthcare

Clinical Audit Reference no

CA 97/04

Project initiation date

Initiation of SPCERH: September 1997
Initiation of Phase 3: September 2003

Scheduled completion date

September 2007

Expected publication date

N/A

About this project

The work programme is built around four complementary roles of Audit and Guidelines, Co-ordination and Advisory, Feedback and Implementation and Research. Within this, there are 11 core undertakings, including administering the Confidential Enquiry into Maternal Deaths (Scotland), the Scottish Confidential Audit of Severe Maternal Morbidity and the Scottish Stillbirth and Infant Death Survey.

Project team members and contributors

  • Grant Holders: Professor Andrew Calder, Head of Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Simpson Centre for Reproductive Health, NHS Lothian and Dr James Chalmers, Consultant in Public Health Medicine, Information Services Division
  • Dr Gillian Penney, Programme Co-ordinator, SPCERH

Budget and special resources

Phase 3–£887,880

For more information

  • Beatrice Cant, Senior Programmes Manager, CECU, NHS QIS
  • Dr Gillian Penney, Programme Co-ordinator, SPCERH