Stuart MacDonald.
The Oban Times is running a series of articles championing the work carried out by Argyll and Bute Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP) in the Oban, Lorn and the Isles locality. Each article features a specific service provided by the HSCP and focuses on the staff who provide that service and the role they play in making a positive difference for the people living in Oban and surrounding areas. This week we look at the work of Stuart MacDonald and the role of the ANP team.
Stuart MacDonald is one of Argyll and Bute Health and Social Care Partnership’s (HSCP) Advanced Nurse Practitioners (ANP) based at Lorn and Islands Hospital. The ANP role was developed on the back of the European working time directive (EWTD) in 1998 that stated no one should work more than 48 hours in one week. This led to a reduction in the hours that junior doctors worked and introduced a scheme called Hospital @Night, producing the role of the ANP, who, with advanced training, could take on some junior doctors’ roles by way of bleep filtering calls overnight, dramatically reducing the workload of the junior doctor without jeopardising care.