End Unqualified Doctors
of ‘physician associates’ and ‘anaesthetist associates
who do not have medical degrees and receive only two years' training compared to the seven years and more required to be a doctor.
End physician or anaesthetist associates
- End ‘physician associates’ and ‘anaesthetist associates that are not medically qualified but who are allowed to diagnose and prescribe.
Background
Unemployed fully qualified GPs
Dr Bob Gill informs that around 1000 fully trained GPs are unemployed, replaced by unqualified associate doctors (physicians) which he says will be a danger to patient safety.
..."NHS aims to increase the number of physician associates working in England from about 4,000 to 10,000"... From The Guardian newspaper.
PAs are not qualified doctors
...'Physician associates' (PAs)... do not have medical degrees and receive only two years' training compared to the seven years and more required to be a doctor"
Unqualified doctors doing surgery
PAs..."are increasingly being presented in healthcare settings as medical professionals and are even performing unsupervised heart surgery in some hospitals, as well as diagnosing, prescribing and seeing more patients in many general practices than GPs.
Downskilling Doctors
Privately-owned GP companies are even making GPs redundant in order to replace them with cheaper PAs. Several patients have died, including at least two confirmed by coroner's inquests, after misdiagnosis and inappropriate treatment by PAs."...
..."The use of PAs, which is considered by nine out of ten doctors to be dangerous to patients and confuses many patients, who do not realise that they have not been seen and treated by a fully-qualified medic"... ..."being pushed by the government as a way of ‘downskilling’ the NHS, reducing costs and allowing increased profits for private providers, under the guise of the so-called ‘NHS Workforce Plan’ as part of the ‘Integrated Care Systems’ (ICS) project.
ICS, formerly called ‘Accountable Care Organisations’ (ACOs) after the US system it copied, were renamed after awareness began to spread that ACOs were a system for withholding care from patients and that care providers were incentivised to cut care because they receive a share of the ‘savings’....
Doctors’ Association survey finds ‘deeply disturbing’ misuse of govt’s non-doctor roles.
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