title: 'Time we stopped blaming patients'.
abstract: I decided to leave A&E after 18 years to work in a primary care led clinic, and was particularly struck by your recent editorial 'Whose need does A&E serve? (Emergency Nurse February, 1999). The clinic I now work in is staffed and run by nurses in a GP practice in Liverpool.
authors.affiliation: Old Swan Treatment Centre, Liverpool.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wolstenholme