COMMENTARY
Specialty care in the community
Specialist services in the community: maintaining quality of care
Correspondence to:
Correspondence to:
Clinical Vice President
Royal College of Physicians, 11 St Andrews Place, Regent Park, London NW1 4LE, UK
The need for joint training programmes and collaborative partnerships
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The length of specialist medical training and past imprecision in medical workforce planning has led to relative inflexibility when developing new models of service delivery. Specialist care in the community may provide more convenient and accessible care for patients, but must not be at the expense of quality. It is important that new models of care are evaluated through pilots, for quality of care and cost effectiveness, before widespread implementation.
This care will require close collaborative working between all members of the multidisciplinary team and the Royal College of Physicians and the Royal College of General Practitioners have signalled their wish to encourage working together across traditional professional boundaries to facilitate new models of service delivery. This will require new training models, with trainees moving seamlessly between what are currently defined as primary and secondary care. There are opportunities for joint education and training at
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