Clinical Services Journal Survey

The Clinical Services Journal is seeking your views on the physician associate and anaesthesia associate roles, in the wake of recent debate in the healthcare sector around regulation. Are these roles confusing for patients? Should there be a better appreciation and understanding of the work they do?

Please take part in our brief survey. The results will be shared (anonymously) in the journal.

Q1. Are you working as a Physician Associate (PA)?

Yes

Q2. Are you working as an Anaesthesia Associate (AA)?

Yes

Q2.1. If you answered 'No' to questions 1 or 2, do you work with:

Physician Associates?

Yes

Anaesthesia Associates?

Yes

Q3. Do you believe the roles should be regulated?

Yes

Don't know

Q3.1 If you believe the roles should regulated, who should be responsible?

GMC

Royal Colleges

Other (Please specify)

Q4. If you are working in one of these roles, do you feel valued as a member of the healthcare team?

Always

Most of the time

Sometimes

Never

Q5. Is there capacity among senior medics for the roles to be adequately supervised?

Yes

Don't know

Q6. DOES THE USE OF PAs/AAs:

Enhance patient safety

Undermine patient safety

Neither enhances or undermines safety

Don't know

Q7. DOES THE USE OF PAs/AAs

Enhance efficiency

Undermine efficiency

Neither enhances or undermines efficiency

Don't know

Clinical Services Journal Survey

Q1. Are you working as a Physician Associate (PA)?

Q2. Are you working as an Anaesthesia Associate (AA)?

Q2.1. If you answered 'No' to questions 1 or 2, do you work with:

Q3. Do you believe the roles should be regulated?

Q3.1 If you believe the roles should regulated, who should be responsible?

Q4. If you are working in one of these roles, do you feel valued as a member of the healthcare team?

Q5. Is there capacity among senior medics for the roles to be adequately supervised?

Q6. DOES THE USE OF PAs/AAs:

Q7. DOES THE USE OF PAs/AAs

Q8. Please feel free to share any additional comments on the PA/AA roles here: