title: Clinical management where medicine meets management. Ever ready.
abstract: 'Evercare nurses', based on a US model of an expanded clinical role, are being piloted in 10 trusts. Pilots report good results in increasing quality of social care. There has been criticism of diverted resources and unthinking importing of US ideas.
authors.forename: Carol
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Lewis
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D019468:Disease Management; D006299:Health Services for the Aged / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D017146:Models, Organizational; D009722:Nurse Practitioners; D010865:Pilot Projects; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D013222:State Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration; D006113:United Kingdom; D014481:United States