Guideline development group

Claire Allen (patient representative): Deputy Administrator, The Cochrane Collaboration Secretariat, Oxford and Cochrane Consumer Network.

Lindsay Beverley: Senior Pharmacist, Falkirk and District Royal Infirmary.

Jane Bovey: Anaesthetics and Recovery Nurse, Salisbury District Hospital bank contract, and NHS Professionals, Portsmouth Health Trust, and RCN Perioperative and Surgical Nursing Forum.

Dr Marian Brady (Chair): Programme Leader, Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professions Research Unit, Glasgow, Scotland.

Ingrid Darnley: Clinical Effectiveness and Quality Officer, British Dietetic Association.

Dr Annette Dearmun: Principal Lecturer/Senior Nurse, Oxford Brookes University/ Oxford Radcliffe Hospital, and Chair RCN Children's Surgical Nursing Forum.

Dr Rebecca Jester: Associate Dean (taught postgraduate studies), University of Wolverhampton, and RCN Orthopaedic Nursing Forum.

Mervi Jokinen: Practice and Standards Development Adviser, Royal College of Midwives.

Di Keeton: Senior Sister, children's day ward, Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust, and RCN Children's Surgical Nursing Forum.

Dr George Meakin: Senior Lecturer in Anaesthesia, Royal Manchester Children's Hospital and President Elect, Association of Paediatric Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland.

Gail Parsons: Advanced Nurse Practitioner, The Dudley Group of Hospitals Trust, and RCN Orthopaedic Nursing Forum.

Joanna Prickett: Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, North Bristol NHS Trust.

Professor Leo Strunin: Emeritus Professor, University of London, and Royal College of Anaesthetists.

Dr Pauline Stuart: Consultant Anaesthetist, Glasgow Royal Infirmary.