Reducing emergency admissions: are we on the right track?

Schemes which reduce emergency admissions sound like a good thing, but Martin Rowland, professor of health services research, Cambridge Centre for Health Services Research, University of Cambridge, explains how they can go off track. And Mabel Chew gets some advice on the prognosis of children with acute coughs from Matthew Thompson, a senior clinical scientist in the Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, Oxford University.