Is there a risk of loss of professional identity and role erosion, and ‘genericisation’?
This risk is more likely to be perceived by professions who are either ‘giving up’ certain roles or tasks, or where those roles and tasks can now be performed by a wider variety of people. The prime example here is psychiatry. Non-medics can now prescribe independently and in collaboration with a psychiatrist; the clinical leadership of a team is no longer seen as part of the consultant psychiatrist’s role by right, and the role of the Responsible Medical Officer will be replaced by that of Responsible Clinician in the Mental Health Act 2007. Psychiatrists needs to respond to these challenges, some but not all of which are related to NWW, not by trying to find a ‘unique selling point’, but by emphasising the development of a broad range of skills based on a firm knowledge and evidence base during psychiatric training, together with a depth of understanding. If the functioning of teams in future is to be based on capabilities, then psychiatrists must have the range of integrated capabil
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