NHS to hire physician associates from abroad despite training quality fears
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The NHS is to be allowed to hire physician associates (PA) from Ghana, Zimbabwe and Bangladesh, despite concerns over the quality of their training.
Doctors have been in revolt over the plan to increase the number of PAs and AAs working in the NHS since plans to treble their number to more than 10,000 were first revealed almost two years ago.
Imagine the furore if a Conservative government announced a scheme to shrink hospital waiting lists using financial incentives. First, they’d pay cash-strapped hospitals unlimited bonuses to kick patients off the lists. Then, they’d offer GPs cash to stop referring patients…
NHS clinicians will be supported to use groundbreaking AI tools that bulldoze bureaucracy and take notes to free up staff time and deliver better care to patients thanks to guidance published today.
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