TY - JOUR T1 - A silver service at the front door of the hospital JF - Future Healthcare Journal JO - Future Healthc J SP - 53 LP - 53 DO - 10.7861/futurehosp.6-1-s53 VL - 6 IS - Suppl 1 AU - William Wareing Y1 - 2019/03/01 UR - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/6/Suppl_1/53.abstract N2 - Improve access to multidisciplinary team (MDT)-delivered, comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) to frail patients within the emergency department (ED).Reduce inappropriate admissions of frail, older people to hospital.Reduce polypharmacy and inappropriate prescribing in older people within the ED.Improve links with and support to community services through the use of a ‘silver service telephone’.We developed an ‘emergency geriatrics’ MDT consisting of a consultant geriatrician, rapid response therapist, band 8 prescribing pharmacist and core medical trainee to work … ER -