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    NEW: Systematic review demonstrates that PAs are safe and effective in the Primary Care setting

    Byadmin 11/11/202511/11/2025

    https://bjgpopen.org/content/early/2025/11/02/BJGPO.2025.0026 A newly published systematic review published in BJGP Open examines the role of Physician Associates in UK primary care. The findings highlight that Physician Associates operate safely in the primary care setting – an encouraging and necessary affirmation for our profession. Key findings from the review of 16 studies:•⁠ ⁠When PA consultations were objectively…

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    The BMA strategy around PAs is starting to spectacularly backfire

    Byadmin 10/11/202510/11/2025

    For the last two years the British Medical Association (BMA) under the control of a pressure group called DoctorsVote (DV) has sought to campaign against Physician Associates (PAs) in the UK. The DV/BMA has been very successful, they have managed to get the Leng Review implemented and influenced, they have managed to get the Faculty…

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    American Academy of Physician Associates (AAPA) publishes critique of the Leng Review

    Byadmin 02/11/202504/11/2025

    The highly respected American Academy of Physician Associates (AAPA) has published their critique of the Leng Review and it makes grim reading. Here is the full report: https://www.aapa.org/download/153276/?tmstv=1761916932 If you cannot be bothered to read all 12 pages, here is a summary: The AAPA’s response, prepared by doctoral-level research scholars with over 50 years of…

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    The Leng Review – a critique

    Byadmin 25/09/202504/11/2025

    At the time of writing Physician Associates (PAs) have been operating in the UK health service for over 20 years. PAs receive similar training as a doctor but delivered in a more intensive way over a shorter period of time. PAs have the same clinical and history-taking skills as a doctor but their focus is…

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    FACT CHECK: Countering the MISINFORMATION from the BMA about Physician Associates

    Byadmin 18/09/202527/10/2025

    Until relatively recently the BMA was supportive of the Physician Associate role. Then, around the time of the junior doctor strikes, a movement within the medical community called DoctorsVote (now rebranded as Doctors United) took over the BMA and adopted a populist line what viewed PAs as a threat and then demanded a more money…

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    Why Emily Chesterton is NOT a reason to get rid of Physician Associates

    Byadmin 17/09/202529/10/2025

    (And the BMA needs to stop exploiting her family) Emily Chesterton is a beautiful, young woman who sadly died of a pulmonary embolus (PE – blood clot on her lungs) having seen a Physician Associate (PA) twice in a GP practice. Emily presented with calf pain, shortness of breath and difficulty walking. The PA concerned…

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    How much do Doctors really get paid compared to Physician Associates?

    Byadmin 14/08/202527/10/2025

    The British Medical Association (BMA) is making a lot of noise claiming that Physician Associates (PAs) are paid more in their first year than first year foundation doctors. This is obviously a powerful argument, but it does not reflect the reality. The BMA is being “economical with the truth”. Doctors’ pay is extraordinarily complex (thanks…

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    Why the BMA is campaigning against PAs, but not ACPs

    Byadmin 04/04/202410/11/2025

    The BMA is putting a lot of energy into campaigning against Physician Associates. But another group of clinicians, called Advanced Clinical Practitioners, is not in the firing line. When you find out about ACPs, you will discover this is another example of hypocrisy from the Doctors’ union and highlights that the BMA’s stance against PAs…

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    A simple solution to the Physician Associate issue in the NHS

    Byadmin 08/08/202526/09/2025

    There are c. 4,000 Physician Associates (PAs) working in the UK health service and right now they are a political football. Physician Associates are a great idea. They are clinicians trained in the same way as a doctor but over a shorter period of time and with a focus on the common, core presentations. They…

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    What is the strategy behind the Doctors’ Vote/British Medical Association’s attacks on Physician Associates?

    Byadmin 04/08/202529/09/2025

    Ever since the junior doctor strikes of 2024 the British Medical Association (BMA) has changed its stance on Physician Associates (PAs) and kept up a barrage of attacks on PAs. What is going on, why is the BMA so concerned about this and what can be done about it? The BMA is the major trade…

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    The REAL REASON why the BMA opposes Physician Associates

    Byadmin 20/11/202429/09/2025

    The BMA’s opposition to Physician Associates (PAs) is simply part of a strategy to increase Doctors’ pay that involves the corporate bullying of a minority group of fellow healthcare professionals Not so long ago the British Medical Association took a positive and supportive view of PAs. PAs work alongside and support Doctors in their work…

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