%0 Journal Article
%@ 1872-6054
%A Barratt, H
%A Harrison, DA
%A Raine, R
%A Fulop, NJ
%D 2015
%F discovery:1468015
%J Health Policy
%K Emergency departments, Great Britain, Hospital planning, Patient involvement, Qualitative research
%N 9
%P 1210-1217
%T Factors that influence the way local communities respond to consultation processes about major service change: A qualitative study.
%U https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1468015/
%V 119
%X In England, proposed service changes such as Emergency Department closures typically face local opposition. Consequently, public consultation exercises often involve protracted, hostile debates. This study examined a process aimed at engaging a community in decision-making about service reconfiguration, and the public response to this process.
%Z © 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ireland Ltd. This is an open access article under  the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).