{"id":1326,"date":"2024-12-23T12:02:57","date_gmt":"2024-12-23T12:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/physician-associates-our-letter-to-the-lancet\/"},"modified":"2024-12-23T12:02:57","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T12:02:57","slug":"physician-associates-our-letter-to-the-lancet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/physician-associates-our-letter-to-the-lancet\/","title":{"rendered":"Physician associates: Our letter to the Lancet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our chair Ms Helen Fernandes and former chair Dr Matt Kneale have called for a pause in the expansion of physician associate roles in a letter to the Lancet.\r\n\r\nMs Fernandes and Dr Kneale highlighted doctors\u2019 concerns around patient safety, supervision, and physician associates\u2019 scope of work.\r\n\r\nThey wrote that the pause was \u2018necessary to assess the effect on patient outcomes and medical training\u2019.\r\n\r\nThey added: \u201cThere is pressing need for clear scope-of-practice guidelines, proper regulation, and improved public awareness to ensure informed consent.\u201d\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lancet\/article\/PIIS0140-6736(24)02608-4\/fulltext\">Read the letter in full<\/a>.\r\n\r\nSupport our work by <a href=\"https:\/\/dauk.org\/membership\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/dauk.org\/membership\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1731415023791000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1NdNBfmx47vYt9SkxK1ICn\">becoming a member<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/support-the-work-of-the-doctors-association-uk-dauk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/support-the-work-of-the-doctors-association-uk-dauk&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1731415023791000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1brWX4FquA7UtVB8OikJxQ\">donating to our Go Fund Me<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our chair Ms Helen Fernandes and former chair Dr Matt Kneale have called for a pause in the expansion of physician associate roles in a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,58],"tags":[17,628,644,654,636],"class_list":["post-1326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dauk-news","category-the-nhs","tag-dr-matt-kneale","tag-lancet","tag-ms-helen-fernandes","tag-physician-associate","tag-physician-associates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}