TY - JOUR T1 - ‘Excellence in adversity: abortion care in the coronavirus pandemic’ JF - BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health JO - BMJ Sex Reprod Health SP - e1 LP - e1 DO - 10.1136/bmjsrh-2020-bsacp VL - 47 IS - 1 A2 - , Y1 - 2021/01/01 UR - http://jfprhc.bmj.com/content/47/1/e1.abstract N2 - This was the fifth annual conference organised by the British Society of Abortion Care Providers (BSACP), a multi-professional society formed in 2014 to promote best practice, education, training and research in abortion care in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, its Crown Dependencies and Other Territories. BSACP serves its members by providing a forum for professional development and networking, as well as by raising the profile of the specialty and improving understanding amongst those responsible for abortion-related policy, guidance, commissioning, regulation and training. Further information about the Society, including how to become a member and support BSACP’s aims, is available at https://bsacp.org.uk.‘Excellence in Adversity: Abortion Care in the Coronavirus Pandemic’ was the first online national conference aimed at enabling UK abortion providers to come together to learn about, discuss and debate the impact of the pandemic and other key issues relevant to abortion care and provision.The conference comprised presentations by invited speakers and interactive workshops. The abstracts that follow are from those authors competitively selected to deliver a short presentation of their work during the free communication sessions at the conference. The live presentations were chosen from a large number of good quality abstract submissions.Rebecca Blaylock1Shelly Makleff2Katherine Whitehouse1Patricia A Lohr1*1British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), UK2Independent Consultant, UKIntroductionThere is little agreement of what constitutes quality in abortion care or the recommended indicators for its measurement, particularly from the service users’ perspective.MethodsWe conducted one-to-one interviews, by phone or in person, with individuals who had an abortion in the previous 6 months at one of seven geographically dispersed British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) clinics in England and Wales. The topic guide explored:Experiences of quality in abortion carePerceptions, definitions, and … ER -