The Royal College of Psychiatrists Physician Associate Inceptorship Programme: Developing Educational Programmes to Support the Integration of This New Role in Psychiatric Services

[摘要] Aims Physician associates (PAs) are becoming more commonplace in psychiatric services in the UK to help address long term workforce difficulties. In 2019, the NHS Long Term Plan detailed a commitment to transforming mental health care in England recognising that services were not meeting current or future increase in demand. Health Education England's (HEE) report, Stepping Forward to 2020/21: The Mental Health Workforce Plan for England, described a longer-term strategy to expand the mental health workforce, including recruiting 5,000 people into ‘new roles’ including physician associates. The NHS Mental Health Implementation Plan 2019/20–2023/24 stated an aim of recruiting 140 PAs to the workforce over five years in addition to the requirements specified in the HEE report. HEE and the Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych) have sought to support the integration of PAs into psychiatric teams through the development of the Inceptorship programme. The aim was to develop a bespoke training programme for PAs to bridge the gap between university and working in mental health to be rolled out nationally.

[学科分类] 计算机科学（综合）