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The article focuses on the need for health-care assistants to obtain education, which will bring improvements in the field of patient care in Great Britain. This will also rectify the nursing shortage in Great Britain and will modernize Great Britain's National Health Service workforce and develop new support roles. The article informs that until now and there is no standardization in terms of job title, role parameters, training requirements and employment patterns for the health-care assistants. The Department of Health has already recommended that 50% of staff should attain a National Vocational Qualification in care at Level 2.