Training assistant practitioners to deliver clinical care in specialist services.
The NHS has introduced the assistant practitioner role to combat staff shortages and provide high quality care. Edinburgh Cancer Centre, Jewel and Esk College and Edinburgh Napier University piloted a course for band 3 staff to train to become band 4 APs in a chemotherapy day unit. This article describes how the course was setup, and the results of an independent evaluation that examined the challenges and opportunities of introducing this role.
McGowan
Donna
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Edinburgh Cancer Centre, Western General Hospital, NHS Lothian.
Campbell
Karen
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