TY - JOUR T1 - Getting The Best of Both Worlds – Clinical Excellence at a Peripheral Unit JF - Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps JO - J R Army Med Corps SP - 41 LP - 46 DO - 10.1136/jramc-154-01-12 VL - 154 IS - 1 AU - T K Day AU - H Veen Y1 - 2008/03/01 UR - http://militaryhealth.bmj.com/content/154/1/41.abstract N2 - Audit of hospital practice in remote areas and military practice indicates that it is possible to provide a high degree of patient safety with the advantages of care close to home in a small hospital with less than 100 beds. However such an approach requires strict attention to training and retraining, good clinical networking, attention to quality control and a well defined system for identifying those patients who need to be transferred to a specialist centre. ER -