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                                                                Exhibit 23.03
                                                                      


                        CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT AUDITORS


We consent to the incorporation by reference in the Registration Statement on 
Form S-4 of Quintiles Transnational Corp., with respect to the proposed 
combination of Quintiles Transnational Corp. and Envoy Corporation, of our 
report dated July 24, 1996, with respect to the audited combined financial 
statements of the Innovex Companies for the year ended March 31, 1996, which 
report appears in the Form 8-K of Quintiles Transnational Corp. dated January 
27, 1999.


Reading, England
17 February 1999


                                        /s/ KPMG