Acknowledgements
We would like to thank the Care Quality Commission (CQC), NHS England and NHS Improvement (NHSE & I), and the National Child Mortality Database (NCMD) for their advice and assistance in ensuring all complications reported within NHS systems have been included.
We are also enormously grateful to the many people who helped to ensure access to essential healthcare for women needing an abortion not only continued, but was improved during the COVID-19 pandemic. There are too many to list individually, but we would like to especially thank the following who not only helped to implement a complete service change within a few weeks, but also made this paper possible by ensuring the data was collected and accessible:
BPAS – Rebecca Blaylock, Steve Cheung, Pam Field, Stephen Franklin, Jeanette Taylor, Katherine Whitehouse
MSUK – Cat James, Andrew Lord, Kay Newey, Abigail Storan
NUPAS – Aaron Flaherty, Linda Leach, Leanne MacCaffrey