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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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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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