‘Anaesthesia associates’ are ‘bending rules’ to clear NHS waiting list backlog Two assistants were recorded during recruitment event making claims about ‘unsupervised’ administrations Save ...

The anaesthesia associate (AA) role should be ‘terminated as economically unviable’, new economic modelling has suggested. A study in the British Journal of Anaesthesia, published earlier this month, ...

Physician associates and anaesthesia associates started working in the NHS in 2003, and it is thought it currently employs more than 5,000 of them.

Similar studies are required in humans,” says Associate Professor, MD Tuomas Lilius from the University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital. What was done and how? Using a rat model, the ...

Despite these concerns the government plans to expand the number of PAs in England from 3,500 to 10,000 by 2036/37, and to hire for 2,000 more anaesthesia associate (AA) roles. Read more: 'Cut-price ...