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 ...

The BMA has lost its appeal challenging the GMC’s use of the term ‘medical professionals’ to describe physician associates (PAs).

MANCHESTER, UK — Regulation of physician associates (PAs) and anaesthesia associates (AAs) will officially become the responsibility of the General Medical Council (GMC) in 6 months' time. Here at the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Allowing physician associates (PAs) to take on the responsibilities of NHS doctors costs lives, an expert from the University of ...

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 ...

The General Medical Council began regulating PAs in December to improve the standards and accountability that the role is held Michael Searles is The Telegraph's Deputy Health Editor. He covers health ...

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 ...

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 ...

Wes Streeting has ordered a review of the role of physician associates (PAs) in an attempt to bring an end to a “toxic debate”. The Health Secretary has made the intervention amid growing concern over ...

Allowing physician associates (PAs) to take on the responsibilities of NHS doctors costs lives, an expert from the University of Oxford has said. Professor Trisha Greenhalgh, lead author of new ...

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