Advanced practice deserves to be an advancement of our colleagues' base professions, using their valuable expertise. There are many longstanding examples of this working well.
Doctor substitution is unsafe and unfair on everyone - patients and staff. It must end.
Doctor substitution is unsafe and unfair on everyone - patients and staff. It must end.
Revealed: the unsafe doctor substitutions putting patients at risk.
We need NHS leadership to wake up. Hospitals knowingly using doctor substitutes, following years of shambolic workforce planning by successive governments, is a serious threat to patient safety.
We are calling for a prohibition on the use of non-doctors on doctors’ rotas and an urgent review of advanced practitioners’ scopes of practice.
Only doctors should be able to carry out work that requires a doctor’s unique training, skills and expertise.
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