There is a wealth of evidence that MDT working delivers significant improvements in patient safety, the patient experience, overall team productivity and the working lives of the clinicians involved. A recent service review of an MDT clinical pathway for inflammatory back pain patients has been described as "an excellent clinic which can address real time issues with real time advice".July 2018, the NICE Quality Standard for Spondyloarthritis (QS170) is now published (and we really like it!)