There is a role for physician associates in the NHS

Abstract

Clarke S. RCP welcomes legislation to regulate the role of physician associates. 27 February 2024. https://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/news/rcp-welcomes-legislation-regulate-role-physician-associates 13 GMC reference numbers for PAs and AAs -GMC (gmc-uk.org) https://www.gmcuk.org/news/news-archive/gmc-reference-numbers-for-pas-and-aas

RCP members vote to limit physician associate roles amid calls for president to resign

“…She was asked by The BMJ to update her competing interests statement so that it now states that RCP hosts the Faculty of Physician Associates and receives membership and examination fees from PAs. The college therefore risks a financial loss from a limit in the rollout of PAs 3…”

Physician associates: a pause in rollout is needed

“…The centre of debate? Physician associates or medical associate professions (MAPs): their role, their relevance, their scope, regulation, and everything else 12. It is a debate which perhaps should have happened many years ago, yet here we are on the eve of such an event.…”

Dark days for the Royal College of Physicians of London

“…This association has also raised questions about senior officers’ neutrality on the debate. The day before the EGM, the RCP’s president Sarah Clarke published a firmly worded personal opinion on PAs in The BMJ 5. In rapid responses to the article, I and others raised questions about whether conflicts of interest had been fully disclosed, and a revised conflict of interest statement confirming that the college receives income from the Faculty of Physician Associates was retrospectively added 5…”