Healthcare assistants. To scrub or not to scrub?
The appropriateness of healthcare assistants expanding their role into the domain of scrubbing has been a contentious issue for a long time. Whenever the shortage of theatre staff becomes a major concern, expanding the role of the healthcare assistant into scrubbing is discussed and decided against. Although allowing healthcare assistants to scrub is not the sole answer for all theatre's problems, Hazel Smith argues that it would ease a difficult situation.
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BUPA Hospital in Cardiff.
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