QUALITY IN HEALTH

Multidisciplinary teamwork: the good, bad, and everything in between See article on page 70 Teams make up the building blocks of health care and every team—from the executive to the coal face—is composed of diVerent professionals, ideally possessing a variety of skills necessary to produce safe and eVective care.1 We are constantly reminded of the value of diversity within teams, but the reality is that working together from a variety of per-spectives is sometimes diYcult to achieve. The paper by Jenkins et al2 in this issue of Quality in Health Care shows, for example, that, unless roles are well defined and understood, responsibility for giving diVerent types of information to patients could easily result in overload to the patient, diVer-ences in messages, and gaps in certain areas