Lord Naren Patel KT   Lord Patel KT is Honorary Professor at the University of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital. He is Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, the Academy of Medical Sciences and The Royal Society of Edinburgh. He holds the Honorary Doctorate in Science, Medicine and Law from the Universities of Napier; Edinburgh; Aberdeen; St. Andrews; Dundee; Athens and Stellenbosch South Africa. He holds a further 18 Honorary Fellowships of universities and national organisations worldwide in surgery, anaesthesia, public health, general practice, psychiatry and obstetrics and gynaecology.  He was awarded a Knighthood in the Queens Birthday Honours List in 1997 and was made a life Peer with the title of Baron Patel of Dunkeld in Perth and Kinross in the Queens New Years Honours List in 1999.  His academic and clinical interests are in the field of high-risk obstetrics. He has published widely on the subjects of preterm labour, fetal growth retardation, obstetric epidemiology etc. His current interests are in health quality and standards of clinical care and patient safety.