title: Acute medicine is at the core of the NHS.
authors.affiliation: Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.
authors.forename: Michael C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Jones
authors.forename: Alan
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Langlands
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D003245:Consensus Statements as Topic; D004635:Emergency Medicine / Q000592:standards* / Q000639:trends; D006801:Humans; D018802:Patient-Centered Care / Q000592:standards*; D013222:State Medicine / Q000592:standards*; D006113:United Kingdom