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Elizabeth Wheatcroft

ACP Nurse Expert Witness

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Professional Profile

Elizabeth Wheatcroft is an Advanced Clinical Practitioner, Emergency Care Practitioner and Registered Adult Nurse with approximately 30 years’ experience across emergency medicine, urgent care, primary care, out-of-hours services, NHS 111, minor injuries, ambulance services and advanced clinical practice.

 

She has worked in advanced autonomous clinical roles since the late 1990s and has extensive experience assessing, diagnosing and managing undifferentiated patients across emergency, urgent and primary care settings. Her career spans emergency departments, minor injuries units, community services, NHS 111, ambulance services and
general practice.

 

Elizabeth has held senior clinical, leadership and advisory positions within emergency care systems and has contributed to national emergency care development initiatives, including Emergency Care Practitioner benchmarking and professional registration work.

 

Her current practice includes advanced assessment, diagnosis, treatment, prescribing and management of adult and paediatric patients within primary care and urgent care settings.

 

She accepts instructions within her professional scope relating to advanced clinical practice, emergency nursing, emergency care practice, urgent care, primary care assessment, NHS 111 services, minor injuries, minor illness, prescribing practice and standards of clinical care within these settings.

Specialisms

  • Advanced Clinical Practice

  • Emergency Nursing

  • Emergency Care Practitioner Practice

  • Emergency Nurse Practitioner Practice

  • Urgent and Unscheduled Care

  • Minor Injuries

  • Minor Illness

  • Out-of-Hours General Practice

  • NHS 111

  • Telephone Triage

  • Face-to-Face Urgent Care Assessment

  • Non-Medical Prescribing

  • Advanced Patient Assessment

  • Clinical Decision-Making

  • General Practice

  • Adult Urgent Care

  • Paediatric Urgent Care

  • Pre-Hospital Emergency Care

  • Documentation and Record Keeping

  • Clinical Governance

  • Palliative Care within Urgent Care

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