Teams without Walls

Teams without walls: enabling partnerships between generalists and specialists.

This one-day conference for senior clinicians and NHS managers was a partnership between the King's Fund, Royal College of Physicians (RCP) and Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP). It explored clinical partnerships and integrated care by examining how to develop constructive and workable relationships between generalists and specialists that harness clinical skills, support profession...

Teams without Walls The value of medical innovation and leadership

Teams without walls: the future of care closer to home.

traditionally worked together for the benefit of their patients. In recent years, however, this relationship has been strained with a palpable split between primary and secondary care. Now things are changing once more and new life is being given to the notion that consultants and GPs should again work closely together. A 2006 Department of Health report, Our health, our care, our say, proposed...

Laboratory without walls.

I nternational networking has become indispensible to research. But are we making best use of the tools and programmes available? With the launch of the EU’s Horizon 2020 research programme, my mailbox began to overflow with so-called partnersearch inquiries. But few of these requests came from scientists, and even fewer from scientists I knew. Mostly, they originated from university ‘research ...

Critical care without walls.

Critical care medicine is a relatively young specialty that was developed in response to potentially reversible life-threatening illness and was facilitated by developments such as new drugs, support equipment, and monitoring technology. It has been largely practiced within the four walls of an intensive care unit (ICU). However, now there are increasing numbers of critically ill and at-risk pa...