Physician associates provide safe and effective care when they work under the direct supervision of doctors and care for patients who have already been diagnosed, or when they undertake procedures for ...

The government's plans to expand physician associate (PA) and anaesthesia associate (AA) roles, and to establish the General Medical Council (GMC) as their statutory regulator, came under renewed fire ...

Physician associates provide safe and effective care when they work under the direct supervision of doctors and care for patients who have already been diagnosed, or when they undertake procedures for ...

Researchers say they can find no convincing evidence that physician associates add value in UK primary care or that anaesthetic associates add value in anaesthetics, and some evidence suggested that ...

Doctors are still waiting for a response to their concerns about physician associates. Last month, the British Medical Association (BMA) called for a halt to their recruitment into the NHS as they ...

A new study has found no evidence that physician associates in the NHS are safe (PA) Allowing physician associates (PAs) to take on the responsibilities of NHS doctors costs lives, an expert from the ...

The Government-commissioned safety review of physician associates will reportedly conclude that their title should be changed to avoid patient confusion. This morning, the Guardian reported that the ...

A union will take the Government to court over its decision to implement recommended changes to the roles of physician associates (PAs) within the NHS, the United Medical Associate Professionals ...

Physician associates (PAs) should be banned from seeing patients who have not been reviewed by a medic to prevent the risk of “catastrophic” misdiagnoses, a Government-ordered report has found. The ...

There is little evidence that employing physician associates (PAs) in the NHS is safe or that they improve patient care, a review from Oxford University has found. Experts said studies relating the ...

The role of physician associates is 'misleading' to the public as they are not qualified doctors, a coroner has warned. Dr Karen Henderson issued her alert after the death of Pamela Marking, 77, whose ...

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