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![]() The importance of advanced nurse practitioners Nurses have always responded to the healthcare needs of their patients and clients and developed their roles accordingly and the advanced nurse practitioner is no different. The focus of national policy on finding innovative solutions to long standing problems, cost effectiveness, assessing the effectiveness of health interventions on patient outcomes, health protection and prevention, quality improvement and cutting costs by improving safety is therefore unsurprising. These challenges include: an aging population, many of whom feel isolated an increase in the incidence and prevalence of long term conditions, growing public demand, an increase in the availability of new health technologies and treatments, inefficient health systems and rising health costs all at a time of financial austerity. The role of the nurse in the UK continues to develop in response to the changing healthcare needs of our population and the challenges that these present.
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