Healey said issues such as specialist roles within the civil service needed to be reviewed.
Skills funding needs to enable experienced care workers to fast track into specialist roles or degree study, such as nursing.
"Certain departments do, however, have a requirement for specialist roles, especially where they are undertaking complex transformative projects.
But it is not only in new, expanded or specialist roles that nurses are exercising enhanced professional expertise.
Police have ended up developing specialist roles and functions – described by Garside as "mission creep" – because they keep being criticised for not doing more to protect someone.
The source, who has written a column for the Guardian about these experiences, said the training had not prepared recruits for working in these specialist roles.
Flt Lt Philips works in the medical liaison team at RAF Cranwell, helping to recruit some of the most specialist roles in the RAF.
Drug-testing is an intrusive process and, other than for some very specialist roles, I do not think it can be justified as a routine procedure.
In answer to a related question, 65% of those surveyed were interested in "specialist" roles and only 35% in "generalist" ones.
It's likely the next generation of games will explore the idea of asymmetrical interaction further, allowing players to find their own specialist roles within virtual worlds, based on their skills and preferences.
The organisations highlight the "worrying lack of clarity or consultation about the effect that funding changes could have on those who need to train for more advanced or specialist roles, such as health visitors or district nurses".
