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The purpose of this resource is to guide the Clinical Assistant within Primary Care working under the delegation of a General Practitioner or Nurse Practitioner.
Please note – all practices utilising this resource need to ensure that the recommended actions have been reviewed and agreed upon within the practice context or updated to a practice specific version under the guidance of practice clinical governance/leadership.
This has been written with Wellington based laboratory limits and 3D Health Pathways recommendations and was last fully reviewed in November 2023.

The resource has been created to support General Practices when employing a paramedic of Extended Care Paramedic (ECP) into their practice. It has been developed by Collaborative Aotearoa through collaboration with various partners across the health sector, as outline in Acknowledgements section.