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Kieran Walshe is director and professor of health policy and management at Manchester Business School's Centre for Public Policy and Management. He has been a Harkness Fellow in Health Policy at the University of California and Senior Research Fellow with the Health Services Management Centre, University of Birmingham. He is an advisor to the National Audit Office and was an expert witness to the Bristol Royal Infirmary Inquiry. He is the author of Regulating Healthcare (OpenUP 2003) which was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Medicine Book Awards 2004. Kieran's second book with OpenUP, co-edited with Ruth Boaden, on Patient Safety published in November 2005. Judith Smith is Senior Lecturer at the Health Services Management Centre at the University of Birmingham. Her research interests are concerned with primary care, commissioning, the development of health care organisations, and international health care. She is national director of the education programme for the NHS Management Training Scheme (MTS), and has recently successfully led a consortium of education providers in bidding to redesign and provide the MTS education programme for a further three years from 2004. She is co-author of Smith J & Goodwin N. The Formation of Primary Care Trusts in England: Lessons for Research and Practice (2004).