The Government is introducing draft legislation to Parliament, which will update laws from 1933, which state that a ...

Doctors will be hauled off the front line so they can supervise physician associates. Wes Streeting, the Health Minister, has ...

Patients in Greater Manchester have had their say on doctor's surgeries in the region. More than 2.7 million people across ...

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

"Our daughter died," she continued. "She was prescribed a drug that she should not have been prescribed. And it had ...

“Medicine shortages only serve to cause undue stress to patients and emphasise the need for diversified treatment options. We ...

A report by Professor Gillian Leng is recommending reforms after admitting that physician associates (PAs) have been used in the NHS as substitutes for doctors, despite having significantly less ...

The UK is chronically short of doctors. Bottlenecks in training, low morale and of course an ageing population have resulted ...

A very young child is ill with the first confirmed case of measles in Wirral. The news comes just days after a child died in Liverpool's Alder Hey Children's Hospital. The hospital has reported a ...

Salford woman's death after PA misdiagnosis raises concerns over NHS use of unsupervised Physician Associates and patient safety regulations.

THE family of an actress who died after being misdiagnosed twice by “substitute doctors” have slammed a Government-backed review. Emily Chesterton’s parents said the report was a ...