We were pleased to see GIN’s former Chair, Professor Gillian Leng CBE, was featured this morning on the BBC highlighting the publication and implications of the Leng Review of UK Physician Associates (PAs) and Anaesthesia Associates (AAs).
The Leng Review, authored by Gillian, highlighted the importance of ensuring that patients were able to more easily identify Physician Associates and Anaesthesia Associates, who assist doctors in GP surgeries and hospitals, to avoid any risk of confusion. Her recommendations included changing their titles to ‘assistant’ and ensuring that PA and AA clothing and badges was clearly distinguishable to minimise the risk of patients mistaking them for doctors; PAs and AAs should also only attend to patients in a limited range of circumstances.
Professor Leng CBE was Chair of the Guidelines International Network (GIN) between 2018-2021 and was awarded the Honorary Mastership of GIN in 2024. She is currently the President of the Royal Society of Medicine and a non-executive for the UK Government’s Department of Science Innovation and Technology.