DAUK voice concerns as hospital seeks to appoint ACP to consultant role

Ellen Welch

The NHS

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A hospital has sparked controversy by seeking to recruit an advanced clinical practitioner to fill a consultant’s job in emergency medicine, it has been revealed in Doctors.net

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals says the appointment will be a non-medical consultant, working on a tier 4 rota.

DAUK wrote to the Royal College of Emergency Medicine and received the following response:

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