...Jane Cassels Record; Michael McCally; Stuart O. Schweitzer; Robert M. Blomquist; Benjamin D. Berger Though knowledge about physician's assistants and nurse practitioners is far from conclusive, these new health practitioners (NHPs) appear to perform a large percentage of primary care services at a...

... clinics across the country. By mid-1975, ten years after the frst training programs for these new health professionals (NHPs) were created, the federal govern- menl- hadspent more than $50 million on the programs.’ A continuing commitment to the physician extender concept is attested by the...