%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/).