{"id":1355,"date":"2025-03-31T14:18:09","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T13:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/dauk-chair-physician-associates-article\/"},"modified":"2025-03-31T14:18:09","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T13:18:09","slug":"dauk-chair-physician-associates-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/dauk-chair-physician-associates-article\/","title":{"rendered":"Physician associates: Chair discusses PA issues in national newspaper"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DAUK chair Ms Helen Fernandes has contributed to an in-depth national newspaper article on physician associates (PAs).\r\n\r\nThe i News has explored the issues surrounding the role of PAs in GP surgeries and hospitals.\r\n\r\nIt looks at their regulation and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/independent-review-of-physician-and-anaesthesia-associates-areas-to-be-covered\/leng-review-further-detail-on-the-areas-to-be-covered-by-the-review-of-physician-associate-and-anaesthesia-associate-professions\">Government-commissioned Leng review<\/a> into the safety of PA and anaesthesia associate roles and the contribution to multidisciplinary healthcare teams.\r\n\r\nThe article also covers the judicial review being brought by Anaesthetists United (AU), which is being supported by DAUK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Physician associates<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ms Fernandes said there had been a failure to address the \u2018scope and limitation\u2019 of PAs. She added: \u201cThat leaves the PAs themselves, the doctors supervising them and, more importantly, the patients they care for in unsafe and uncharted territory.\r\n\r\n\u201cThe proposal that the scope will be determined locally, by the employer, seems ridiculous given that is not what trusts are for in being able to define what a professional can do.\u201d\r\n\r\nMs Fernandes also questioned whether there was actually a role for PAs in the NHS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What do PAs bring to medical teams?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She said: \u201cIf they work with the more admin side of patient care and carried out limited amount of patient care, like blood pressure checks and blood tests\u2026 but there are already people who do these things all of whom are trained in these things, so what does a PA bring to a medical team?\r\n\r\n\u201cWhat unique skills do they bring? Well, the answer is none. There is no single college that supports the role.\u201d\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/inews.co.uk\/news\/health\/row-gps-physician-associates-nhs-3605579\">Read the article in full<\/a> on the i News website.\r\n\r\nPlease support our work by contributing to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/support-the-work-of-the-doctors-association-uk-dauk\">our crowd funder<\/a> or by <a href=\"https:\/\/dauk.org\/membership\/\">becoming a member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAUK chair Ms Helen Fernandes has contributed to an in-depth national newspaper article on physician associates (PAs). The i News has explored the issues surrounding&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[691],"tags":[640,639,636],"class_list":["post-1355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-medical-allied-professions","tag-anaesthesia-associates","tag-maps","tag-physician-associates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355","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=1355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}