Choosing and Using Contraceptives: Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Family Planning
Philip Cooper Ian DiamondandSue HighUniversity of Southampton
Introduction
In Britain, family planning has for the past two decades been supplied by both specialised family planning clinics and by family doctors and people have had a free choice of source. Under new proposals health commissions will now ask all providers to tender to provide family planning and will award tenders on the basis of quality and cost of provision. This paper describes research aims to help commissions to improve the provision of family...