Introduction
Vascular services are recognised as having a high priority in the UK. Publication of evidence that the outcome from abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) surgery was significantly worse in the UK than in comparable countries,1 and the 2005 NCEPOD Report ‘AAA a service in need of surgery’, led to a national Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Quality Improvement Programme (AAAQIP)...