Given these problems, her view is that the resultant targets are unreliable and unrealistic, which can be demotivating and cause needless stress for those involved. Collecting quality data isn’t just about meeting targets, she says, it is key to knowing whether our interventions are improving health.
She describes successfully working with women and their partners to prevent postnatal relapse back to smoking, but points out that not all of these may be measurable in the target driven NHS.
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