An international reference as to the potential for short stay surgery, how to set up a purpose designed unit and what the needed surgical skills are. It is written by specialists in their sphere who have considerable experience in this form of surgery. In the future, short stay surgery is going to become a financial imperative in so many countries. This book has been designed to help surgeons plan for the future and to discover the vast potential of short stay surgery.

WEG Thomas - Consultant Surgeon and Clinical Director of Surgery in Sheffield. Past member of the Court of Examiners of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, Arris and Gale Lecturer and Hunterian Professor. Currently Surgical Skill Tutor and Mentor of Council of teh Royal College of Surgeons of England.

NB Senninger - Professor of Surgery and Director of the Department of General Surgery of the Universitätsklinikum in Münster / Germany.