{"id":1386,"date":"2025-06-04T10:48:20","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T09:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/report-physician-associates-renamed\/"},"modified":"2025-06-04T10:48:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T09:48:20","slug":"report-physician-associates-renamed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/report-physician-associates-renamed\/","title":{"rendered":"Reports physician associates to be renamed welcomed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DAUK welcomes reports that physician associates (PAs) could be renamed to stop patients mistaking them for doctors.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2025\/jun\/04\/physician-associates-to-be-renamed-to-stop-them-being-mistaken-for-doctors\">The Guardian<\/a> is today reporting that the <a href=\"https:\/\/dauk.org\/physician-associates-launch-of-independent-review-welcomed\/\">Leng Review into PAs<\/a> has \u2018found that their title caused widespread confusion\u2019 among patients.\r\n\r\nThe newspaper reports that their name could be changed to \u2018physician assistants\u2019 or \u2018doctors\u2019 assistants\u2019.\r\n\r\nMs Helen Fernandes, DAUK chair, said: \u201cWe welcome reports today the title of PAs is to change to make clear they are doctors\u2019 assistants and not fully-trained medical professionals.\r\n\r\n\u201cWe hope the government follows the recommendation, if it is made.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Physician associates<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHowever, that in itself does not address the fundamental issues of scope and supervision.\r\n\r\n\u201cPatients interacting with doctors\u2019 assistants, and doctors working alongside them need urgent clarification.\u201d\r\n\r\nDAUK has raised significant concerns about the regulation and expansion of PA and anaesthesia associate (AA) roles in the NHS.\r\n\r\nWe\u2019ve long called for a pause in their roll out over concerns about patient safety, scope of practice, and their supervision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Scope and supervision<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr Ellen Welch, DAUK\u2019s vice chair and a GP, said: \u201cThis is a start but we still need to define scope of practice.\r\n\r\n\u201cWe also need to address the doctors\u2019 concerns around supervision and who is responsible for these assistants and their work.\r\n\r\n\u201cAnaesthetists United returns to the High Court next week with an important court case which aims to do that.\r\n\r\n\u201cDAUK has given our support with a \u00a330,000 contribution but they still need help funding their crucial challenge.\u201d\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>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAUK welcomes reports that physician associates (PAs) could be renamed to stop patients mistaking them for doctors. The Guardian is today reporting that the Leng&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,691],"tags":[324,644,654,636],"class_list":["post-1386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dauk-news","category-medical-allied-professions","tag-dr-ellen-welch","tag-ms-helen-fernandes","tag-physician-associate","tag-physician-associates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386","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=1386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}