Physician associates must stop diagnosing patients, say senior medics

BMA guidance on staff responsibility levels follows death of woman whose fatal blood clot was missed twice

Staff such as physician associates should be banned from diagnosing patients, leading medics have said, after the death of a woman whose fatal blood clot was missed twice.

The British Medical Association (BMA) has published guidance outlining what it thinks the level of responsibility those in medical associate professions (MAPs), such as physician associates (PAs) and anaesthesia associates (AAs), should have.