Advanced practitioners are critical to the delivery of primary care, but experience considerable variability in support, supervision and governance structures across regions of the UK. In this service evaluation article, the authors collaborated to survey the current training experiences of trainees and qualified advanced practitioners in two regions in the north and south of the UK. Following this, the authors plan a preceptorship pilot study to strengthen the support available to newly qualified advanced practitioners and to safeguard services against rising attrition rates. Depending on the success and evaluation of this pilot, the programme could be expanded to all clinical areas in the UK.
Fisher et al. (Fri,) studied this question.