‘Our daughter would still be alive if she had seen GP and not an associate’
The parents of a woman who died after being misdiagnosed by a physician associate say their daughter would still be alive if she had seen a GP instead.
Brendan Chesterton, 64, a retired maths and ICT teacher, and his wife Marion, 65, a retired languages teacher, are backing new guidance from the British Medical Association (BMA) calling for limits on the role of NHS physician associates (PAs).
Physician associates are graduates – usually with
