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This has strong echoes of the Teaching Assistant role in schools... another measure intended to ease capacity issues by down-grading the requirements for staff in crucial roles.
These associates have been used in the NHS since 2004, but this expansion of use is of course all part & parcel of the Tories 'plans' for the NHS... defund, de-skill, tighten risk, drive people into the arms of the private sector by stoking health anxiety.