Ian Wrench is a consultant obstetric anaesthetist working in the UK at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Trust although originally from North Wales. His main non-clinical interests are research, audit, service evaluation and quality improvement. He was formally an Obstetric Association of Anaesthetists of the UK, committee and subcommittee member. He has published work on enhanced recovery for obstetric surgery and has helped to write guidelines for this area as part of an ERAS society multinational group.