Advancing Practice at St George’s, Epsom and St Helier Hospital Group (gesh)
At gesh we have an established team of experienced staff in specialist advancing practice roles. Advancing practice encompasses enhanced practice to trainee advanced practitioner and advanced practitioner through to consultant practice.
Advanced and Consultant Practitioners are senior experienced registered healthcare professionals with the knowledge and skills to take on expanded roles in caring for patients. They have Masters degree level advanced practice qualifications and the experience to work independently as part of a clinical team.
They come from a range of professional backgrounds such as nursing, midwifery, physiotherapy, paramedicine, clinical science, occupational therapy, radiography, pharmacy, podiatry, speech and language therapy and dietetics.
“Advanced Clinical Practice is delivered by experienced registered healthcare practitioners. It is a level of practice characterized by a high level of autonomy and complex decision-making. This is underpinned by a masters level award or equivalent that encompasses the four pillars of clinical practice, management and leadership, education and research, with demonstration of core and area specific clinical competence’’. Health Education England (2017). NHS England published the Multi-professional framework for advanced clinical practice in England in 2017.
For more information on advancing practice, visit the NHS England website.
gesh Advancing Practice Leads
- Lee Patient, St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: Lee.Patient@stgeorges.nhs.uk
- Yvette Boamah, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust: yvette.boamah@nhs.net
