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Is substituting nurses with less qualified staff a growing trend?

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NHS employers increasingly substitute less qualified staff for registered nurses, risking patient safety and devaluing the profession

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Yvonne Covell (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6acb2689de12086d486e56f9 https://doi.org/10.7748/ldp.29.5.6.s2

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