The Study Steering Committee: Dr Raffaele Napolitano (chairperson), University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Professor Tim Draycott, North Bristol NHS Trust; Professor Sara Kenyon, University of Birmingham; and Samantha Foulke, lay member.
We are deeply indebted to all participants in the various work packages, health-care professionals, pregnant women and women who had previously had second-stage CS who gave up their time for the study.
We would particularly like to acknowledge Corrienne McCulloch, who has made an enormous contribution to the study through her participation in the consensus group and re-writing the Plain English summary for this report. Corrienne sadly lost her baby boy Harris a few days after his birth, owing to an IFH at CS, and has inspired and motivated all the study team during this project with her incredible bravery and willingness to share her experiences to help shape research in this area.
We would like to acknowledge Natalie Wakefield, Study Co-ordinator, NCTU, for all her hard work co-ordinating the project.
We would like to acknowledge the organisations who supported the work: the British Intrapartum Care Society (BICS) and UK Audit and Research Collaborative in Obstetrics and Gynaecology (UKARCOG); the Obstetric Anaesthetists Association (OAA); the Royal College of Midwives; and the National Childbirth Trust (NCT).
Patient and public involvement
Our PPI co-applicant Rachel Plachcinski was involved in every aspect of the project from the start and helped to shape the research. Rachel Plachcinski co-designed both of the national parent surveys, reviewed the interview schedules produced for the qualitative work, and reviewed all patient-facing materials. We had PPI representation at the consensus meeting and trial design meetings. A woman with lived experience of IFH, Corrienne McCulloch, re-wrote the Plain English summary for this report.
Publication
Romano G, Mitchell E, Plachcinski R, Wakefield N, Walker K, Ayers S. The acceptability to women of techniques for managing an impacted fetal head at caesarean section and of randomised trials evaluating those techniques: a qualitative study. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth 2021;21:103.
Data-sharing statement
All data requests should be submitted to the corresponding author for consideration. Access to anonymised data may be granted following review.
Patient data
This work uses data provided by patients and collected by the NHS as part of their care and support. Using patient data is vital to improve health and care for everyone. There is huge potential to make better use of information from people’s patient records, to understand more about disease, develop new treatments, monitor safety, and plan NHS services. Patient data should be kept safe and secure, to protect everyone’s privacy, and it’s important that there are safeguards to make sure that it is stored and used responsibly. Everyone should be able to find out about how patient data are used. #datasaveslives You can find out more about the background to this citation here: https://understandingpatientdata.org.uk/data-citation.
Disclaimers
This report presents independent research funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). The views and opinions expressed by authors in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the NHS, the NIHR, the HTA programme or the Department of Health and Social Care. If there are verbatim quotations included in this publication the views and opinions expressed by the interviewees are those of the interviewees and do not necessarily reflect those of the authors, those of the NHS, the NIHR, the HTA programme or the Department of Health and Social Care.
