NHS to hire physician associates from abroad despite training quality fears
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The NHS is to be allowed to hire physician associates (PA) from Ghana, Zimbabwe and Bangladesh, despite concerns over the quality of their training.
Doctors have been in revolt over the plan to increase the number of PAs and AAs working in the NHS since plans to treble their number to more than 10,000 were first revealed almost two years ago.
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