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Campaigners from Merseyside Pensioners Association outside the Royal College of Physicians Northern HQ in Liverpool
Cabinet Office sets out plan for bringing services like cleaning and security back in-house
CAMPAIGNERS from the Merseyside Pensioners Association protested against the Americanisation of the NHS and the government’s dangerous substitution of doctors with physician assistants today.
Earlier this month, the Royal College of Physicians held an extraordinary general meeting — only the third in the college’s 500-year history — on the role of physician associates (PAs).
Formerly known as physician assistants, they are trained for two years to perform a number of day-to-day tasks in GP surgeries and hospitals.
In the second part of her critique of Wes Streeting’s TenYear Plan for Health, HELEN MERCER looks at the central planks of this privatisation blueprint
Evidence to peers from medical leaders, patient safety officials and the children’s commissioner has intensified fears that the Bill’s safeguards are inadequate, writes ADAM JAMES POLLOCK
