Introduction

OK, we know, you're not going to read this book from cover-to-cover. Risk, law and ethics? Clinical Governance? What a bodice ripper! Fear not! If you have a low boredom threshold, short attention span or lots

of other interests, so do we! This is the book for you. It is divided into short, distinct sections, each of which can be read in

isolation. Only the anorak wearers are expected to read more than a few pages at a time. For the rest, look at it between patients, in the bath, on the loo or during the adverts on the telly.