Wakefield, Ann; Spilsbury, Karen; Atkin, Karl; McKenna, Hugh - In: Health Policy 90 (2009) 2-3, pp. 286-295
Objectives To understand the extent to which the assistant practitioner role is described as 'assistive' in formal job descriptions and analyse whether the term 'assistive' has been stretched to encompass more 'substitutive' or 'autonomous' characteristics.Methods Sixteen AP job descriptions...