After being forced to wait days or weeks for an appointment at your GP surgery, it would be fair to assume that your consultation is going to be with a doctor. In reality, it may well be with a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Physician associates (PAs) should be banned from seeing patients who have not been reviewed by a medic to prevent the risk of ...

Title change an attempt to reduce risk of PAs being mistaken for doctors after a series of patient safety incidents Michael Searles is The Telegraph's Deputy Health Editor. He covers health policy, ...

Government review finds PAs linked to fatal misdiagnoses and incorrect treatment plans Michael Searles is The Telegraph's Deputy Health Editor. He covers health policy, medical breakthroughs, and NHS ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Patient safety will be at the forefront of changes to the roles of NHS physician associates (PAs), who should “never be used to replace doctors”, the Health Secretary has said. Wes Streeting pledged ...

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 ...

A new report says physician associates should be renamed and should not diagnose patients who have not seen another doctor first (PA) Physician associates (PAs) should be banned from seeing patients ...