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

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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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