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Clinical Practice

General Practice Services

 General Practice Nursing may be a rapidly expanding speciality in nursing, reflecting the shift in health healthcare delivery from secondary to medical care over the last 20 years . Initially nurses were said to be interested in working within General Practice due to the regular hours and adaptability offered because it tended to not involve shift work. Increasingly it's due to the power to figure with individuals and families and to require on a spread of roles and responsibilities. Following the formation of the NHS in 1948, General Practitioners were appointed as independent contractors and ‘gatekeepers’ of access to health care. they need been liable for delivering primary and private medical aid to all or any those patients registered with them ever since. it had been not until 1966 that the primary contract between General Practitioners (GPs) and therefore the National Health Service (NHS) was involved and funding for ancillary staff, including nurses, was made available. within the very youth nurses were generally employed to figure in treatment rooms, completing basic medical care tasks like weighing patients, testing urine, taking specimens, doing dressings and giving injections and observations like temperature and pulse (Cartwright and Scott 1961) . The limited range of duties of the overall Practice Nurse (GPN) at this point would are unlikely to exceed the competencies expected of any registered general nurse.  

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