Career overview of health care assistants in United Kingdom and enlightenments for China / 中华医院管理杂志

The United Kingdom is highly experienced in the career development and deployment of health care assistants ( HCA) to cope with shortage of nurses. This paper introduced the HCA entry requirements and career development in UK. The entry requirements include quality requirements, basic training and education requirements, practice certificate training and effect evaluation. Career development includes job promotion and transfer to clinical nurses. In view of the current situation of nursing assistant position in China, this paper made valuable recommendations.