{"id":1373,"date":"2025-05-12T14:40:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T13:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/physician-associates-legal-challenge-to-continue\/"},"modified":"2025-05-12T14:40:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T13:40:09","slug":"physician-associates-legal-challenge-to-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/physician-associates-legal-challenge-to-continue\/","title":{"rendered":"Physician associates: Legal challenge to continue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anaesthetists United (AU) is set to continue its legal action against the General Medical Council (GMC) this week.\r\n\r\nThe challenge over the regulation of physician associates (PAs) and anaesthesia associates (AAs) is due to be heard at the Royal Courts of Justice on Wednesday and Thursday.\r\n\r\nThe challenge has been brought with the parents of Emily Chesterton, Marion and Brendon. Emily was aged 30 when she died after two appointments with a PA she believed was a GP.\r\n\r\nAU is still short of funds and is asking for support to continue its challenge.\r\n\r\nWe\u2019ve given our support, including <a href=\"https:\/\/dauk.org\/dauk-welcomes-filing-of-legal-challenge-on-pa-and-aa-regulation\/\">a \u00a330,000 contribution to Anaesthetists United<\/a>\u2019s crowdfunding efforts. The support underscored our deep-seated concerns over patient safety and professional standards.\r\n\r\nFor more information on how to support this crucial legal challenge, please visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crowdjustice.com\/case\/stop-misleading-patients\/\">Anaesthetists United donations page<\/a>.\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\" 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=1742658988093000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3C2g7K4vo0MhujHA6swNwN\">our crowd funder<\/a> or 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=1742658988093000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3rlt6OKUEPJcwIoZj22ohz\">becoming a member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anaesthetists United (AU) is set to continue its legal action against the General Medical Council (GMC) this week. The challenge over the regulation of physician&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[640,116,654,636],"class_list":["post-1373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dauk-news","tag-anaesthesia-associates","tag-gmc","tag-physician-associate","tag-physician-associates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373","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=1373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}