Health Education England have brought together the Physician Assistants across the East of England to work collaboratively and share resources.
Physician Assistant Podcast - Click here to listen to James Catton's 'The Physician Associate Podcast'
Multiprofessional Foundation School :
The multiprofessional foundation school (supporting new healthcare providers in their first years of clinical practice) launched in 2022. It offers access to joint learning resources and opportunities within the virtual environment (VR and on-line) and some face to face, highlighting the learning opportunities available to each profession be that foundation medicine, foundation dental, pharmacy and medical associate professional.
We have a thriving and innovative multiprofessional foundation school in the East of England. This school has adapted to technology enhanced learning, been innovative in the types of learning opportunities provided, and with the year trial has successfully embedded some multiprofessional teaching that has sessions for PA, and also an offer of multi-professional sessions.
This is opportunity to be creative and support the development of multiprofessional learning and adoption of shared culture within our earliest post graduate years, and their educational faculty.
This unique offer provides the opportunity to support the development and growth a culture of multi-professional learning within the earliest post graduate years .
There is significant national interest in the practicalities and the results of this innovative endeavour, that has been developed with NHSE aspirations of multiprofessional working and Inclusivity.
Physician Assistants in secondary care
To support the launch of the multiprofessional offer after a successful pilot, expressions of interest are being asked of our secondary care trusts for up to 30 secondary care preceptorship placements for newly graduated PAs or within their first year.
Dr Jane Sturgess is the Associate Dean for MAPS.
Dr Helen Johnson is the Deputy Dean supporting the multiprofessional school and the MAPs programme.
Physician Associates
Are you a Physician Associate working in the East of England? - get in touch with your local Physician Assistant Ambassador so they can connect with you and involve you in local events.
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Please listen to the following segment from Jeremy Vine on BBC2 radio - 1hr 5min to 1hr 30 - supportive discussion around pharmacy and PAs in primary care: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00228vf
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Due to the recommendations of the Leng Review, published on 16th July 2025 we are currently making the following changes to all associated webpages:
- Physician and Physician Associates will now be called Physician Assistants and Anaesthetics Assistants across all pages.
- Associated published documents will also be updated in due course.
Please be mindful that it may be possible to access cached versions of our webpages and therefore you may notice the incorrect terminology on these. We would advise refreshing the page and/or accessing it via an alternative browser..
Thank you for your patience as we implement this immediate recommendation of the Leng Review.
