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Over the past ten years there has been a large increase in both the number of nurses employed in general practice and the proportion of consultations undertaken by them. Some have argued that there is considerable scope to further increase the amount of primary care delivered by nurses but the potential extent and desirability of substitution is contested. In this Policy+ we summarise a recent study by the National Nursing Research Unit which examined whether practices which employed more nurses delivered better quality care for patients.

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