Nurse Eileen McKinlay: On GP and NP role disputations

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Nurse Eileen McKinlay: On GP and NP role disputations

Eileen McKinlay

Thursday 6 April 2023, 10:33 AM

Two letters were sent to New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa on the topic of how NPs and GPs fit into general practice

Eileen McKinlay, nurse and director for Centre for Interprofessional Education, Division of Health Sciences, University of Otago, wrote to New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa after reading Lucy O'Hagan's commentary on nurse practitioners

Kia ora Lucy O’Hagan, thank you for making the time to write to me. I am one of the ones who was taught first to clean. In fact, it happened in wee

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Darlow B, Coleman K, McKinlay E, et al. The positive impact of interprofessional education: a controlled trial to evaluate a programme for health professional students. BMC Med Educ 2015;15(1):98.

Horrocks S, Anderson E, Salisbury C. Systematic review of whether nurse practitioners working in primary care can provide equivalent care to doctors. BMJ 2002;324(7341):819-823.

Laurant M, van der Biezen M, Wijers N, et al. Nurses as substitutes for doctors in primary care. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2018(7).

Goodyear-Smith F, Ashton T. New Zealand health system: universalism struggles with persisting inequities. The Lancet 2019;394(10196):432-442.

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