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Some 86 per cent said patients are not aware of the difference between the roles. The BMA is warning a blurring of the distinction can, and has, led to fatal consequences .
Physician associates ‘pose a risk to patient safety’ leading medics have said after a new poll showed the vast majority of doctors in the UK are concerned about the expansion of the positions in the NHS.