A long way from Frome: improving connections between patients, local services and communities to reduce emergency admissions.

Background: Low socio-economic status can lead to poor patient outcomes, exacerbated by lack of integration between health and social care and there is a demand for developing new models of working.

Aim: To improve connections between patients, local services and their communities to reduce unscheduled admissions.

Design And Setting: A primary care cluster with areas of high deprivation, consisting of 11 general practices serving over 74,000 people.

The ageing of the population: implications for multidisciplinary care in hospital.

Background: Comprehensive geriatric assessment and multidisciplinary intervention are of proven benefit in the care of older people.

Objective: To determine whether patients' multidisciplinary needs in hospital can be met by current service provision.

Design: A comprehensive census assessing the multidisciplinary needs of an entire inpatient population compared to available multidisciplinary therapy time.

Setting up a multidisciplinary journal club in learning disability.

This article presents an account of how a journal club with a multidisciplinary membership from learning disability practice was set up. It presents a review of the literature which discusses the purpose, function and setting up of journal clubs. It outlines how topics were selected, the appraisal tool used to review articles and how findings from the reviews were disseminated to practice areas.