BMA calls for physician associates to be 'banned' from diagnosing patients after blood clot death

Physician associates (PAs) should be banned from giving diagnoses to "improve patient safety", the British Medical Association has said after a woman died from a blood clot which went undetected.

In 2022, actress Emily Chesterton, 30, died after being misdiagnosed twice. She believed she had been seen by a GP, but instead was assessed on both occasions by a PA.

Speaking to Sky's Ashish Joshi, Emily's mother Marion Chesterton said new regulation on PAs is "absolutely" needed following her daughter's death, which a coroner found was avoidable.

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