In the Programme and Abstracts of the British Thoracic Society Winter Meeting 2001 published in Thorax 2001;56(Supplement III), an error occurred in abstract S130 “Management of pneumothorax in a district general hospital: compliance with the BTS guidelines” by Al-Aloul M, et al which appeared on page iii40. The name of the second author which appeared as K U Torrey should have been K U Toori.