Re: Is a storm brewing around advanced clinical practitioner and advanced nurse practitioner roles? If physician associates did not exist they would have to be invented

Agreement: I Agree Body: Dear Editor To paraphrase a famous saying, I would suggest that "If physician associates did not exist they would have to be invented". The following are the underlying reasons for their existence:- (i) Physician associates in primary care Given the fact that typical opening hours for many primary care medical centres cover the period 8 am to 6.30 pm on weekdays, and no opening times on weekends, the only viable strategy (within those time constraints) to deal with the mounting case load generated by the ageing of the UK population is to engage the services of…