The article in the July issue by Brodie and Knight brings many questions. Are multidisciplinary team meetings not part of normal QOF-related primary care? Were the school nurses and health visitor funded from the Local Enhanced Service monies? There is no comment as to whether social services were invited and if so, attended. Safeguarding is indeed an important subject and huge amounts of time are spent on training and retraining. In our area though it is not lack of knowledge of the process or of those children who are or might be vulnerable, but the black hole of the ‘system’ .
Joined-up face-to-face meeting with the social services component of safeguarding might enhance the benefit and let us know as GP what ‘they know’ about the children and vulnerable adults in our shared care and what, if anything positive, can be done about them.
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