Want to diagnose, assess, manage cancer patients? Doctors: 4-6 yrs med school 2 yrs foundation 3 yrs internal medicine MRCP exams 4-5 years oncology training FRCR exams CCT PAs: 1 week of oncology lectures 🤔

The controversy regarding the RCPL draft scope document is almost inevitable if authored by people not well-versed in doing objective research and writing balanced policy documents for discussion/approval. If three anti-PA authors wrote it, then the outcry would come ... 1/n

.GMC refers to PAs as “Medical Role Substitutes” But GMC does not acknowledge the fact that PAs are substituting for Drs. This is, shall we say inconsistent? The PA role completes 2 years of PA studies. Drs train in Medicine for 10 - 15 years.

I am a UK trained oncologist. If tomorrow I want to perform an endoscopy or angiogram, I can’t. I work within a national scope of practice determined by 17 years of academic rigour. A Trust deeming me competent is irrelevant. PAs don’t get a free ride

The GMC made a massive mistake calling the PA/AA survey a piece of ‘research’ in their refusal to give the raw data Prof Matthias is now on the way to absolutely humiliating them. Did public know they are part of ‘research’?

Want more scope? 3 simple steps: 1️⃣ Apply & go to medical school. 2️⃣ Apply & complete foundation training. 3️⃣ Apply & complete speciality training like the rest of us had to. I’m sorry, but you don’t get to skip the queue with your 2yr non-medical PA studies.

Our open letter to UK House of Commons House of Lords #HealthSelectCommittee Layla Moran 🔶🕊️ - that parliament was misled by the delay to the Royal College of Physicians EGM - calls for a delay in the planned December start of MAP registration by GMC Dr Rachel Clarke Dagan Lonsdale Taryn Youngstein

Patient Safety Commissioner I have a sneaking suspicion that you may have just come to realise that there is a considerable problem with drs being replaced by PAs. Dr Sandeep Bansal has all the evidence you could possibly need to confirm this. Now you know, please act. Question the GMC and their motives.

🧵/ This is, I believe, unprecedented in the history of UK medicine. 28 eminent UK doctors have written publicly to Layla Moran 🔶🕊️, the new chair of Health and Social Care Committee, to report something nothing less than scandalous. Read their letter here (1/n) 👇 bmj.com/content/386/bm…

I've been notified of an update to article 7 regarding revalidation of MAPs. Lots to digest here. gov.uk/government/con…

Whether you are a layperson or a doctor or other HCP, read this ⬇️ and feel the anger grow in your guts. GMC needs to be stopped.

BBC regurgitates: "PAs take histories......" NO. Actually. They don't. A safe Medical history cannot be taken by any person after 2 years of “PA studies.” Taking a safe Medical history is most of what Medicine is. It takes 10 to 15 years. Stop uncritical regurgitation.

Association of Anaesthesia Associates Royal College of Anaesthetists Hogwash. There is no shortage of drs keen to be anaesthetists, in fact hundreds are denied the opportunity to further train in this specialty due to restrictive training numbers. AA isn’t a profession. Want progression? Go do the nitty gritty. Study medicine.

James Steen Very well said, and actually their own argument works against them: if AAs are owed a career because they’ve done a basic degree, then Anaesthetic CT3 are owed even more, and therefore should take priority for funding before any AA posts/training pathways are funded.

Paper going to Royal College of General Practitioners council Sensible recommendations on limiting scope of practice of physician associates risk being completely undermined by clause in blue below. It says scope can be set locally for PAs already in practice - this will not protect patients & must be voted down

Dr Helen Salisbury Royal College of General Practitioners Terrifying. If GPs really think that having the same scope of practice as them without any of the training, then they should have DiT pulled from them, and the income with it - as they clearly don’t believe in the training pathway to become a GP.

Heather Ryan Royal College of General Practitioners Heather Ryan 👏👏👏👏 Thank you for representing views & voices of majority of GPs

But they have never chosen excellence Not at GCSE Not at A level Not at university They were poor to mediocre They prob expected to get a minimal wage job Then came along a unaccredited pretend masters course with 100% pass rate and a 47K wage to end up doing doctory things