The Health Foundation in the UK has published a report by Miranda Laurant and others called, Revision of professional roles and quality improvement : A review of the evidence. The report looks at the impact of professional role revision on quality of care and outcomes, focusing on the revision of roles between doctors and advanced practice nurses such as nurse practitioners, specialist nurses, clinical nurses and practice nurses, as well as physician assistants, pharmacists and allied healthcare professionals.
The authors found "that there is no detrimental effect of revising or extending the roles of non-medical professionals, and in some cases there is a positive effect on the quality of patient care. Gains in service efficiency may be achieved if doctors stop providing the services that are transferred to other health professionals and instead invest their time in activities that they alone can perform."
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