ITV News | BMA backs family suing regulator over the role of physician associates in the NHS @ITVNews | Uploaded October 2024 | Updated October 2024, 18 hours ago.
ITV News can exclusively reveal that the British Medical Association (BMA) is joining legal action being brought by a bereaved family against the medical regulator over the role of physician associates in the NHS.

The parents of 30-year-old Emily Chesterton, who died from a pulmonary embolism after she was misdiagnosed by a physician associate, accuse the General Medical Council (GMC) of putting patients at risk by failing to distinguish properly between the role of doctors and medical associates.

They are joining a legal case against the GMC alongside the campaign group Anaesthetists United.

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