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Workforce issues
Advanced Clinical Practitioners (ACPs) have a significant impact on patient outcomes and healthcare services
  1. Alison F Wood1,
  2. Robin Hyde2
  1. 1 Division of Nursing and Paramedic Science, Queen Margaret University, Musselburgh, UK
  2. 2 Department of Nursing, Midwifery & Health, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
  1. Correspondence to Dr Alison F Wood, Queen Margaret University, Musselburgh, UK; Awood1{at}qmu.ac.uk

https://doi.org/10.1136/ebnurs-2023-103725

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    Commentary on: Mann C, Timmons S, Evans C, Pearce R, Overton C, Hinsliff-Smith K, Conway J. Exploring the role of advanced clinical practitioners (ACPs) and their contribution to health services in England: A qualitative exploratory study. Nurse Educ Pract. 2023 Feb;67:103546. doi: 10.1016/j.nepr.2023.103546. Epub 2023 Jan 24.

    Implications for practice and research

    • Workforce planning needs focus on the level of practice required for service demand and not ‘what role is needed’. Planners must appreciate the contributions and limitations of practice different advanced clinical practitioners (ACPs) bring.

    • Research is needed to move beyond capturing the advancement of roles to exploring changes, in practice and education, and evaluating the improvements made, particularly with advanced practice (AP) regulation being reviewed by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).

    Context

    Advanced Practice (AP) is a phenomenon which in the last century may be traced back to the post second world war era. During the 1960s, countries such as the USA and …

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    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed.