Judicial ruling on GMC describing assistants as 'medical professionals' could go to Court of Appeal

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By Daniel Pye

A judge has granted permission for the British Medical Association to appeal a High Court ruling on describing physician assistants as “medical professionals”.

Writing to the General Medical Council, BMA council chair Dr Tom Dolphin asked the regulator “not to use this inappropriate umbrella term to describe doctors and non-doctors,” before “further public funds are spent by the GMC fighting this appeal”.