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Patients put at risk as nurses and pharmacists are used in place of doctors: Dossier reveals missed heart attacks, botched diagnoses and cancer referral blunders

Daily Mail Health · 24 September 2026 at 14:51

Patients put at risk as nurses and pharmacists are used in place of doctors: Dossier reveals missed heart attacks, botched diagnoses and cancer referral blunders

British hospitals are using nurses and other healthcare professionals to fill roles normally carried out by doctors, putting patients at risk of serious harm, a 'shocking' dossier warns.

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Patients put at risk as nurses and pharmacists are used in place of doctors: Dossier reveals missed heart attacks, botched diagnoses and cancer referral blunders

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