- David Hodgkinson, consultant in emergency medicine
- Ipswich Hospital, East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust, Ipswich, UK
- david.hodgkinson{at}esneft.nhs.uk
In Salisbury’s article about the death of a woman who was seen twice by physician associates (PAs), she concludes that the PA training scheme has “led to a dangerous dilution of standards.”1
I have worked in NHS acute and emergency care, as a junior doctor and then as a consultant, over a 40 year career. …