{"id":76140,"date":"2025-06-06T08:05:57","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T08:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=76140"},"modified":"2025-06-06T08:05:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T08:05:57","slug":"physician-associates-to-be-renamed-to-stop-them-being-mistaken-for-doctors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/06\/06\/physician-associates-to-be-renamed-to-stop-them-being-mistaken-for-doctors\/","title":{"rendered":"Physician associates to be renamed to stop them being mistaken for doctors"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1G36ct.img?w=534&amp;h=427&amp;m=6\" alt=\"The report will say those who perform physician associate roles must make clear to patients that they are assistants, not fully qualified doctors. Photograph: Jeff Moore\/PA\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Physician associates in the NHS will be renamed to stop patients mistaking them for doctors after a review found that their title caused widespread confusion.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/physician-associates-to-be-renamed-to-stop-them-being-mistaken-for-doctors\/ar-AA1G3bku?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=f39a3081b8be4465e49782f484d427d5&amp;ei=90\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Physician associates in the NHS will be renamed to stop patients mistaking them for doctors after a review found that their title&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-76140","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Physician-Associate.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76141,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76140\/revisions\/76141"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}