Medical audit is a means of improving the quality of primary health care by arriving at appropriate standards and assessing how well the practice lives up to them. This edition applies the techniques of audit to diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic conditions, preventive medicine and practice management. The book includes four important new chapters: audit of prescribing; managing the practice for quality; the role of FHSA in audit; audit in fundholding - evaluating purchasing ability. This work aims to help all those in primary health care team to understand the ideas of audit and put them into action, so that most benefit is gained, both for the patients and for the practice.