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Delegation of health care tasks to personal assistants

Delegated healthcare interventions

Skills for Care and the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) are working with partners to develop a national framework to support consistent, safe and effective delegation of healthcare interventions to social care workers across residential and community settings, including the personal assistant (PA) workforce. Read more about it here.

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Delegation of healthcare tasks to personal assistants: guide

This guide published by NHS England is aimed practitioners and integrated care boards to help understand the decision-making process involved in the delegation of healthcare tasks from registered practitioners to personal assistants.

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