{"id":2220,"date":"2026-03-05T09:24:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T09:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/?p=2220"},"modified":"2026-03-05T09:24:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T09:24:34","slug":"dauk-in-the-media-sas-lead-on-mpac-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/dauk-in-the-media-sas-lead-on-mpac-review\/","title":{"rendered":"DAUK in the media: SAS lead on MPAC review"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DAUK SAS lead Dr Victoria Zaslona contributed to an article on Doctors.Net about a review of multi-professional approved clinicians (MPACs) carrying out duties formerly restricted to psychiatrists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych) is looking at the role, responsibilities and training of MPACs, Doctors.Net reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr Zaslona, a SAS psychiatrist, spoke about some of the concerns in the specialty about the work of MPACs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She said: \u201cWe don\u2019t feel best placed to supervise and teach these professionals, and also our capacity is not there.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.doctors.net.uk\/news\/review-of-non-medical-staff-carrying-out-duties-formerly-restricted-to-psychiatrists\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read the article on Doctors.Net<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are a non-profit campaigning and lobbying organisation led by frontline doctors, for frontline doctors. We are volunteers and our collective aim is to give frontline workers a voice to be heard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please support our work by contributing to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/support-the-work-of-the-doctors-association-uk-dauk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">our crowd funder<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAUK SAS lead Dr Victoria Zaslona contributed to an article on Doctors.Net about a review of multi-professional approved clinicians (MPACs) carrying out duties formerly restricted&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[25,238,741],"class_list":["post-2220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dauk-in-the-media","tag-dr-victoria-zaslona","tag-sas","tag-sas-lead"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2220","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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2220"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2231,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2220\/revisions\/2231"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}