TY - JOUR T1 - Acute geriatrics at the front door JF - Clinical Medicine JO - Clin Med SP - 350 LP - 353 DO - 10.7861/clinmedicine.17-4-350 VL - 17 IS - 4 AU - Simon Conroy AU - Stuart Parker Y1 - 2017/08/01 UR - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/17/4/350.abstract N2 - Older people with frailty and urgent care needs are major uses of health and social care services. Comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) is an evidence-based approach to improving their outcomes, as well as improving service outcomes. Geriatricians form a small proportion of the overall workforce and cannot address the population need alone, so all clinicians (doctors, nurses, therapists and so on) need to engage in delivering CGA as a process of care, underpinned by specific competencies – which can be developed. Delivery of this care pathway needs to be measured and improved as rigorously as campaigns like those for improving sepsis or eradicating methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. ER -