New clinical roles within the NHS - BMA
In a large organisation such as the NHS where there is a near constant process of service redesign, it is inevitable that new roles will be created from time-to-time. While it is true that new clinical roles spring up from new approaches to service delivery, they may also arise from new ideas on career progression or out of necessity, for example when there is a shortage of doctors (see Advanced Critical Care Practitioners).
Currently, with NHS funding stretched, a medical recruitment and retention crisis and the ongoing agenda of moving care into the community, we are seeing an unprecedented period of new clinical role development.
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