The BMA has offered financial support to a family that is pursuing a legal challenge against the General Medical Council over how it distinguishes between doctors and physician associates.
In the latest development over the controversial issue of physician associates’ role in health services, the BMA said it would give financial support to the legal case of the campaign group Anaesthetists United. The group is challenging the GMC on what it describes as the regulator’s failure to properly distinguish between qualified doctors and physician associates (PAs) and anaesthetic associates (AAs).
The BMA said it will provide an indemnity for any adverse legal costs of the GMC for certain stages of the case.
The case involves Marion and Brendan Chesterton, the parents of Emily Chesterton, who died in 2022 aged 30 after two appointments with a PA, who she believed …
