{"id":1428,"date":"2025-09-16T11:55:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T10:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/physician-assistants-dauk-supports-legal-appeal-over-gmc-regulation\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T11:55:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T10:55:23","slug":"physician-assistants-dauk-supports-legal-appeal-over-gmc-regulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/physician-assistants-dauk-supports-legal-appeal-over-gmc-regulation\/","title":{"rendered":"Physician assistants: DAUK supports legal appeal over GMC regulation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Doctors\u2019 Association UK (DAUK) has reaffirmed its support for Anaesthetists United (AU) as it launches an appeal in its high-profile court case.\r\n\r\nAU has applied for permission to appeal the <a href=\"https:\/\/dauk.org\/dauk-response-to-high-court-ruling-on-physician-assistants\/\">recent High Court ruling<\/a> on its legal challenge over the GMC\u2019s regulation of physician assistants (PAs) and physician assistants in anaesthesia (PAAs).\r\n\r\nThe appeal 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Physician assistants<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It challenges the GMC\u2019s decision not to set out a defined scope of practice for PAs and PAAs.\r\n\r\nAU is still short of funds and is asking for support to continue its appeal.\r\n\r\nDAUK has been an early and consistent supporter of this crucial legal action, and <a href=\"https:\/\/dauk.org\/dauk-donates-to-landmark-legal-challenge\/\">contributed \u00a330,000 to AU\u2019s crowdfunding efforts<\/a>.\r\n\r\nOur co-chair Dr Matt Kneale said the appeal represented an important step in ensuring patient safety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Scope of practice<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr Kneale said: \u201cQuestions around their regulation, scope of practice, supervision, and ultimately patient safety need to be answered.\r\n\r\n\u201cPatients deserve to know exactly who is treating them, what their role is, and what their qualifications are.\r\n\r\n\u201cWithout a nationally defined scope of practice, the lines between doctors and non-doctors are blurred.\r\n\r\n\u201cThere is real danger that PAs and PAAs could be asked to work beyond their training.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Protecting patients<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis appeal is about protecting patients and safeguarding professional standards, and it has our full support.\u201d\r\n\r\nAU has applied to the judge for permission to appeal the ruling. The appeal is to Mrs Justice Lambert, who heard the original case.\r\n\r\nIf the appeal be rejected, AU can make a submission to the Court of Appeal.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/anaesthetistsunited.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/R-AU-Cs-PTA-application-to-Judge-AS-SENT.pdf\">Read details of the appeal<\/a>.\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>The Doctors\u2019 Association UK (DAUK) has reaffirmed its support for Anaesthetists United (AU) as it launches an appeal in its high-profile court case. AU has&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":[713,17,712,636],"class_list":["post-1428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dauk-news","tag-anaesthetists-united","tag-dr-matt-kneale","tag-physician-assistants","tag-physician-associates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428","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=1428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428\/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=1428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}