PAs should be banned from seeing untriaged patients, review finds

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By Jane Kirby, Health Editor, and Robert White, PA Media and Erin Dean

Physician associates should not see patients who haven't been triaged to prevent the risk of “catastrophic” misdiagnoses, a government-commissioned review has found.

The report recommended the change after it acknowledged the role has been used as a substitute for doctors, despite having significantly less training.