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2. I read with great interest the article by Philip Owen and colleagues on ‘Documentation of preoperative counselling for female sterilisation’.1 A similar audit was conducted recently in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Nobles Hospital, Isle of Man and included 81 cases which were admitted for sterilisation between October 2002 and September 2004. The auditable standards were obtained from the Clinical Guidelines No. 4 of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG), (published in January 2004) and the RCOG Consent Advice 3 (published in October 2004). Data were collected retrospectively from the case notes