Almost a quarter of people surveyed did not know the difference between a physician associate and a doctor, a new Healthwatch England poll has found. Medical associate professionals have been under ...

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 ...

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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 ...

More than half of patients do not know what a 'physician associate' is despite NHS plans for them to deliver more care, a study reveals. Doctors have opposed a mass rollout of PAs in GP surgeries and ...

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