The BMA has been collecting the harms
the near-misses
PAs acting beyond their training
the illegal prescribing & ordering of x-rays
600 anecdotes begins to look like data
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/04/02/doctors-expose-scale-of-physician-associate-failures/
the near-misses
PAs acting beyond their training
the illegal prescribing & ordering of x-rays
600 anecdotes begins to look like data
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/04/02/doctors-expose-scale-of-physician-associate-failures/
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The government must commit to training more doctors rather than playing with numbers.
But where’s the _evidence_ of harm / that doctors are better*
*delete as appropriate