Guys, NICE guidelines came out in June aimed at controlling preop testing. Apart from the fact that they are paper based and NICE have run out of copies and alledgedly won't be pre-printing because you can get them as an unusable PDF (is this an advance towards a paperless world or jut plain madness - answers on a postcard to ...) this should be a good thing. To cut it short I've set up an interactive web site for them and would like comments. http://elipse.redirectme.net/PreopNICE/ As an aside - there is absolutely NO logic to what they have done - I defy anyone to do this using a rules-base. If NPfIT end up like this as a result of committee design Lord help us. Rick Dr Rick Jones Clinical Biochemistry & Immunology Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust Leeds General Infirmary Great George St Leeds [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask] Tel: 0113 392 2340 Fax: 0113 392 5174 LS1 3EX