Doctors' surgery assistant to healthcare assistant

• already held accept own accountability skill
• already held adhere to organisational guidelines skill
• already held advise on healthcare users' informed consent skill
• already held apply organisational techniques skill
• already held comply with legislation related to health care skill
• already held comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice skill
• already held contribute to continuity of health care skill
• already held deal with emergency care situations skill
• already held develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship skill
• already held educate on the prevention of illness skill
• already held empathise with the healthcare user skill
• already held ensure safety of healthcare users skill
• already held follow clinical guidelines skill
• already held inform policy makers on health-related challenges skill
• already held interact with healthcare users skill
• already held manage healthcare users' data skill
• already held promote inclusion skill
• already held provide health education skill
• already held respond to changing situations in health care skill
• already held use e-health and mobile health technologies skill
• already held work in a multicultural environment in health care skill
• already held work in multidisciplinary health teams skill
• already held use foreign languages in patient care skill

• optional, not held assist in the administration of medication to elderly optional
• optional, not held disability care optional
• optional, not held distribute meals to patients optional
• optional, not held support individuals to adjust to physical disability optional
• optional, not held communicate in foreign languages with health service providers optional
• optional, not held disability types optional
• optional, not held evaluate older adults' ability to take care of themselves optional
• optional, not held geriatrics optional
• optional, not held older adults' needs optional
• optional, not held perform cleaning duties optional
• optional, not held sterilization techniques optional
• optional, not held use foreign languages for health-related research optional
• optional, not held use technical equipment for sterilisation optional

• not needed by the target role administer appointments skill
• not needed by the target role administrative tasks in a medical environment knowledge
• not needed by the target role anaesthetics knowledge
• not needed by the target role analyse X-ray imagery skill
• not needed by the target role answer patients' questions skill
• not needed by the target role apply context specific clinical competences skill
• not needed by the target role assist in epilepsy surgery skill
• not needed by the target role assist patients with special needs skill
• not needed by the target role assist with hemostasis skill
• not needed by the target role clinical reports knowledge
• not needed by the target role collect biological samples from patients skill
• not needed by the target role communicate in healthcare skill
• not needed by the target role conduct polysomnography skill
• not needed by the target role customer service knowledge
• not needed by the target role e-procurement knowledge
• not needed by the target role health care legislation knowledge
• not needed by the target role health care system knowledge
• not needed by the target role health records management knowledge
• not needed by the target role maintain healthcare user data confidentiality skill
• not needed by the target role maintain treatment records skill
• not needed by the target role medical informatics knowledge
• not needed by the target role medical terminology knowledge
• not needed by the target role monitor patients' progress related to treatment skill
• not needed by the target role multi-professional cooperation in health care knowledge
• not needed by the target role offer advice on diet-related concerns skill
• not needed by the target role operate patients with thoracic diseases skill
• not needed by the target role perform procurement processes skill
• not needed by the target role perform reconstructive plastic surgery skill
• not needed by the target role perform venepuncture procedures skill
• not needed by the target role process medical insurance claims skill
• not needed by the target role professional documentation in health care knowledge
• not needed by the target role provide pre-treatment information skill
• not needed by the target role provide test results to medical staff skill
• not needed by the target role radiological procedures knowledge
• not needed by the target role record healthcare users' billing information skill
• not needed by the target role record healthcare users' progress related to treatment skill
• not needed by the target role spine surgery knowledge
• not needed by the target role supervise medical office support workers skill
• not needed by the target role surgical asepsis knowledge
• not needed by the target role take blood samples skill

3 further entries not listed here

Knowledge gaps usually close through study. Practical skill gaps usually need something you can point at.

• optional, not held disability care optional
• optional, not held disability types optional
• optional, not held geriatrics optional
• optional, not held older adults' needs optional
• optional, not held sterilization techniques optional

Yes, and it is a moderate move. A doctors' surgery assistant already covers 61% of what a healthcare assistant is expected to do: 23 skills carry over, 22 of which the healthcare assistant role treats as required.

10 required skills are missing, plus 13 optional ones. They fall into 8 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, led by communication, collaboration and creativity. The single most important is convey medical routine information.

Its learning distance is 49.4 out of 100, which is the moderate band. That accounts for both how much is missing and how specialised those skills are.