Physician associates – Harrow Monitoring Group

Physician Associate role redefined: shouldn’t diagnose patients – implications for Harrow

An independent review by Prof Gillian Leng says that the Physician associates (PAs) and anaesthesia associates (AAs), who assist doctors in GP surgeries and hospitals, should be known as “assistants” to avoid confusing patients. Physician associates and anaesthesia associates (AAs) were introduced into the NHS in the early 2000s to ease doctors’ workload (but theContinue reading “Physician Associate role redefined: shouldn’t diagnose patients – implications for Harrow”