Report shows Leng review impact on PAs and AAs - Fitness to Practise News by Kings View Chambers
Significant changes to PA deployment, supervision and clinical practice have emerged following the #LengReview, according to a new #NHS England survey.
fitnesstopractisenews.co.uk/report-shows...
#LengReview #PhysicianAssociates #NHS - government accepts all recommendation. Implemenation report in the autumn
You can read full response in Hansard: hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2025-0...
Your HCSA #HospitalDoctorsUnion President, Dr Naru Narayanan provides a detailed opinion on the #LengReview.
President's view: Leng Review a missed opportunity that risks fuelling conflict on physician assistants: www.hcsa.com/news-views/b...
Your HCSA #HospitalDoctorsUnion President, Dr Naru Narayanan provides a detailed opinion on the #LengReview.
President's view: Leng Review a missed opportunity that risks fuelling conflict on physician assistants: www.hcsa.com/news-views/b...
"Many feared this would be a whitewash. It wasn’t."
I agree.
I do think the review was conducted in good faith by Professor Leng.
With its recommendations, it also recognises the mishandling of the introduction and expansion of these roles by senior leaders.
#LengReview
#LengReview
Link to Report on gov.uk :
www.gov.uk/government/p...
Leng review brings some clarity and opportunity for reset,says UNISON
www.unison.org.uk/news/2025/07... #LengReview
#LengReview Professor Leng on @BBCr4today says her report “got it right” because both BMA & association for PAs are ‘both unhappy with her report’.
No, that doesn’t follow logically.
The public need to be very clear, always, about whether or not the person they are seeing is, or isn’t, a doctor.
Trying (in vain) to find a link to the #LengReview. If anyone can help, it would be appreciated
Quite some headlines on how things need to change after #LengReview. Thank goodness for everyone who stood up for /had to whistleblow for patient safety, resident doctor training and how the public were being mislead. Review could have gone further but …
When the #LengReview is published next week it will be interesting to see whether there is mention of support (or not) for SAS roles in the discussion around PAs and AAs providing departmental 'continuity'.
Listening to the #LengReview webinars on AAs and Anaesthetists - irrespective of what the views are on the roles themselves, what is obvious is the monumental mess and distress that has been created by introducing unregulated roles relying on local governance for training and progression.
#LengReview information
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#AnSky
Really important that #doctors engage with the #Lengreview
Link to sign up in @doctoroxford.com post below
💥 DOCTORS!💥
Please share.
The #LengReview is running 2 engagement webinars for doctors:
🩺 Resident doctors: 6pm, 3 April
🩺 Other doctors: 1pm, 1 April
You can sign up for both here with your NHS email:
forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
The Dept of Health finally agreed in October to review the safety of PAs - but only after we've raised concerns for years. The #LengReview will report later this year.
Meanwhile, the NHS allows PAs to replace doctors everywhere you look - even on senior registrar on-call rotas in hospital.
And 3. Greenhalgh: “Physician Associates and Anaesthetic Associates in the UK: A Rapid Systematic Review of Published Research to Inform the Leng Review” SSRN 2025. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
@trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social
All three important for #LengReview & for #RCPTimeForChange
Such an important & timely piece of research interrogating the evidence base for the safety of physician associates in the NHS. (TL:DR worryingly thin with widespread & significant gaps.)
Thank you, @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social
#LengReview
www.pulsetoday.co.uk/news/workfor...
Lack of evidence of harm is NOT the same as evidence of safety - as every doctor will tell you.
I dearly hope the #LengReview will take the limitations of the current evidence base on board - because a whitewash would be unforgivable.
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🧵/ To inform the #LengReview, Professor of Evidence-Based Medicine @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social has just published an extraordinarily important rapid review of the available research on PAs & AAs in the UK.
Its key findings appear to be extremely important (& concerning):
Arguably, one of the most important papers on the evidence around physician associates, hot off the press from the irrepressible @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
This ought to be a cornerstone of the #LengReview report
Hey @matthew-wright.bsky.social 👋🏼
I thought @lbc.co.uk listeners might be interested to see this ‘job’ advert for our GP in ED service, framed as a ‘rate increase’!
What plumber or electrician would call for 30mins on a Sunday for £42.50?
@tomswarbrick.bsky.social
#PAScandal
#LengReview
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@rcgp.bsky.social submission to #LengReview about PAs.
www.rcgp.org.uk/getmedia/273...
As the #LengReview starts, not the Government are paying @gmcuk.bsky.social legal fees against doctors like myself who are taking the GMC to court…
anaesthetistsunited.com/guess-who-is...
