Jonathan Secker-Walker is the author of Quality & Safety In Anaesthesia, published by Wiley.

• Foreword vii PROFESSOR ALASTAIR SPENCEPreface ix1 Quality and the management of risk 1J SECKER WALKER, Senior Lecturer, Unversity College London Medical School, Medical Adviser, Quality and Risk Management Ltd, Merrett Health Risk Management Lid2 National quality studies in anaesthesia 18 JOHN N LUNN, Reader in Anaesthesia, University of Wales College of Medicine, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff 3 Standards and postgraduate traming 27ANTHONY P ADAMS, Professor of Anaesthesia, Guy's Hospital, London4 Medical audit and resource management in anaesthest 48 A GH CoLE, Consultant Anaesthetist, Glenfield General Hospital, Leicester5 Quality in medical audit 65 NANCY DIxON, Consultant in Health Care Quality, Healtheare Quality Quest Lid, Romsey, Hampshire6 Psychology and safety in arration 87 J CHAPPELOW, Principal Psychologist, RAF Institute of Aviation Medicine, Farnborough, Hampshire7 Critical incidents in anaesthesia 105 M CLARE DERRINGTON, Consultant Anaesthetist, Leicester Royal Infirmary, Leicester8 Computers and medical audit 129 MICHAEL F FISHER, Consultant Anaestherist, King's College Hospital, London

Jonathan Secker-Walker is the author of Quality & Safety In Anaesthesia, published by Wiley.

• Foreword vii PROFESSOR ALASTAIR SPENCEPreface ix1 Quality and the management of risk 1J SECKER WALKER, Senior Lecturer, Unversity College London Medical School, Medical Adviser, Quality and Risk Management Ltd, Merrett Health Risk Management Lid2 National quality studies in anaesthesia 18 JOHN N LUNN, Reader in Anaesthesia, University of Wales College of Medicine, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff 3 Standards and postgraduate traming 27ANTHONY P ADAMS, Professor of Anaesthesia, Guy's Hospital, London4 Medical audit and resource management in anaesthest 48 A GH CoLE, Consultant Anaesthetist, Glenfield General Hospital, Leicester5 Quality in medical audit 65 NANCY DIxON, Consultant in Health Care Quality, Healtheare Quality Quest Lid, Romsey, Hampshire6 Psychology and safety in arration 87 J CHAPPELOW, Principal Psychologist, RAF Institute of Aviation Medicine, Farnborough, Hampshire7 Critical incidents in anaesthesia 105 M CLARE DERRINGTON, Consultant Anaesthetist, Leicester Royal Infirmary, Leicester8 Computers and medical audit 129 MICHAEL F FISHER, Consultant Anaestherist, King's College Hospital, London