Fracture of cervical rib: a novel seat-belt injury.

issue requiring urgent redress. We also assume that the current NHS changes would not adversely cloud this issue. The British Geriatrics Society8 suggests that there may be sufficient grounds for pessimism. It appears that, even allowing for memory lapses, frustration and anger in the elderly patients interviewed in this survey, there was a strong cases to implicate insufficient social screening as one of the causes of mismanagement. We emphasize that the management of elderly patients with functional impairment in A&E departments should include a comprehensive social assessment.