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Abstract

The medical care practitioner: development of a new healthcare professional in primary and acute secondary care in the UK

Nigel Sparrow

There has been a demand over the last few years to increase the workforce in both primary and secondary care to meet the requirements of The NHS Plan 2000.1 The NHS Plan stated that staffing constraints, rather  than lack of funding, posed the greatest threat to NHS modernisation.