12 h. ago Physician associates should ‘never be used to replace doctors’ – Streeting

Wes Streeting pledged to implement in full the findings of a review which said physician associates must not diagnose patients.

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23 h. ago NHS 'must make it clear' when patients are NOT being treated by actual doctors

Government-commissioned review says physician associates should not diagnose patients after deaths linked to errors when patients thought they had seen a doctor

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23 h. ago Physician Associates should be banned from diagnosing untriaged patients, review says

Physician associates have been used as substitutes for doctors, despite having significantly less training.

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30 h. ago Six patient deaths linked to NHS using less qualified physician associates as substitute for doctors, government

Physician associates should be banned from seeing patients who have not been reviewed by a doctor to cut the risk of 'catastrophic' harm, a government-ordered review says.

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30 h. ago NHS physician associates should not diagnose untriaged patients, review finds

Government review says PAs sometimes used to fill roles designed for doctors, potentially exposing patients to riskNHS physician associates should be banned from diagnosing patients who have not already been seen by a doctor, a government review has concluded.The review calls for the government to overhaul the role of physician associates (PAs), who it says have been substituted in for doctors to fill staffing gaps despite having significantly less training. Continue reading...

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30 h. ago Only doctors should diagnose patients, not PAs, government review says

Physician associates have been used as substitutes for doctors, despite having significantly less training.

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30 h. ago Physician associates ‘should be banned from seeing patients without review’

A new report suggests a major change to the role of PAs in the NHS after it acknowledged they have been used as substitutes for doctors.

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7 d. ago Hidden meanings behind Kate's VERY poignant jewellery collection: Princess makes special nod to late Queen and Diana with sentimental pieces at first State Banquet since cancer diagnosis 

Not only did Kate, 43, put on a stunning display in a dramatic, dark red silk crepe gown at Windsor Castle yesterday, but she further embellished her ensemble with accessories steeped in meaning.

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8 d. ago Whatever the truth of The Salt Path, I know why people wanted to believe it | Gaby Hinsliff

As questions are asked about the bestselling memoir, is the demand for hope-over-hardship stories outstripping reality?Was the story always, in hindsight, just a little too good to be true? A middle-aged couple, brutally down on their luck after bankruptcy and a terminal diagnosis, escape their troubles on an epic walk round the South West Coast Path, finding comfort along the way in the kindness of strangers. Billed as an “honest and life-affirming” story of prevailing against the odds, The Salt Path became first a bestseller and then a blockbuster film, starring a windswept Gillian Anderson. Though it was never really my thing, I knew plenty of people for whom The Salt Path genuinely resonated, with its romantic central theme of being (as the film’s director, Marianne Elliott, put it) “reformed by the elements” of a blustery English seascape.If it seemed a bit unlikely that a dying man could be rejuvenated by a strenuous trek involving wild camping in all weathers – well, getting ...

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