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InnovAiT 2009 2(11):687-688; doi:10.1093/innovait/inp071
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© The Author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the RCGP. All rights reserved. For permissions please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Nurse practitioners and general practitioners, is there any difference?

Ms Lydia Burke

Senior Lecturer and Advanced Nurse Practitioner, Health and Social Sciences Department, Middlesex University

E-mail: l.burke@mdx.ac.uk

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Arguments still reign over the difference between nurse practitioners in primary care and the general practitioner (GP). While this is being debated the demand for more GP consultations, the expansion of quality outcomes framework, extended opening hours, has seen an expansion in the nurses’ role. The government has supported a proliferation of nurse-led primary care services supposedly allowing doctors to specialize in their areas of interest.

To save money, health care support workers now do the work of practice nurses, . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   Exploring differences
 

   Regulation and pay
 

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