Edited by Jane Sturgess, Consultant Anaesthetist and Associate Lecturer, West Suffolk Hospital, Bury St Edmunds, UK, Derek Duane, Consultant Neuroanaesthetist, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, UK, and Rebekah Ley, Assistant Director, Medico-Legal Department, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, UK

Richard Biram, Consultant Geriatrician, Cambridge University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, UK

Victoria Butler-Cole, Barrister, 39 Essex Chambers, 81 Chancery Lane, London, UK

Belinda Cheney, Tribunal Judge, Assistant Coroner Cambridgeshire and Northampton, Director Medico Legal Training Ltd, UK

Anna Curley, Director of Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and consultant neonatologist, National Maternity Hospital, Ireland

Sarah Elliston, Senior Lecturer, School of Law, University of Glasgow, UK

Elizabeth Fistein, Cambridge Institute of Public Health, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, UK

Zoë Fritz, Department of Acute Medicine, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, UK

Martin Goddard, Consultant Histopathologist, Royal Papworth Hospital, Papworth Everard, Cambridge, UK

Natalie Hayes, Medical Director, Covalon Technologies Ltd, Mississauga, Canada

Anthony Holland, Cambridge Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Group, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge and Peterborough Foundation NHS Trust, UK

Annabel Lee, Barrister, 39 Essex Chambers, 81 Chancery Lane, London, UK

Nigel Spencer Ley, Barrister, Farrar's Building, Temple, London, UK

Rebekah Ley, Assistant Director Medico-Legal Department, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, UK

David de Monteverde-Robb, Lead Pharmacist for Perioperative Services and Pharmacy Research, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, UK

David S. Morris, Former HM Coroner for Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire and Luton, UK

Roddy O'Donnell, Associate Specialty Director in Ethics and Law, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, UK

Keith Rigg, Consultant Surgeon, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, UK

William R. Roche, Emeritus Professor, University of Southampton, Hon. Consultant Pathologist, University Hospitals Southampton, Chair, Wessex Clinical Senate, UK

Vikram Sachdeva, Barrister, 39 Essex Chambers, 81 Chancery Lane, London, UK

Jane Sturgess, Consultant Anaesthetist, Associate Lecturer, West Suffolk Hospital, UK

Cathy Walsh, Clinical Director, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust, UK

"This is a superb book whose title accurately describes what lies between the covers, an essential guide on legal issues of interest to doctors and associated healthcare professionals." - Dr Harry Brown, GP: MBChB, Glycosmedia