Advanced Clinical Practitioners

ACPs are fully qualified and regulated professionals who may come from a variety of backgrounds (eg nursing, paramedic, pharmacist) and who have then taken extra education and training to allow them to extend the boundaries of their profession in a particular direction. This additional training is undertaken to Masters level.
At Ripon Spa, both James and Nadia are qualified Paramedics, and both have subsequently qualified as independent prescribers. James has been working as an ACP in general practice for a number of years, and Nadia is in the final year of her masters degree, after which she will be a qualified ACP.

ACPs work alongside the GPs in providing frontline clinical care to our patients and bring great expertise in the management of acute and urgent illness as well as developing their own caseloads of patients for who they are providing longer term care.

ACPs are not the same as Physician Associates (PAs) who are not independent practitioners and are not a regulated profession. Ripon Spa does not employ or engage the services of PAs.