PAs practise across the breadth of medicine — primary care, hospital medicine, ED, surgery, psychiatry, paediatrics, and specialty areas. GMC regulation is providing the professional framework for clearer career progression.
Primary care: Undifferentiated presentations, minor illness, chronic disease reviews. Growing role in PCNs.
Hospital medicine: Acute medicine, surgery, ED — continuity of care in ward teams.
Specialty areas: Psychiatry, paediatrics, cardiology, respiratory, orthopaedics — developing specialist PA roles.
Salary: Typically Band 7. Senior roles emerging as profession matures.
GMC regulation impact: Professional identity strengthened. Potential future prescribing rights (requires legislation). Formal CPD and revalidation.
Political context: Ongoing debate about PA role boundaries. GMC regulation provides stability but controversy remains. PAs should build strong clinical knowledge regardless of political landscape.
Whatever clinical setting, iatroX provides guideline-grounded clinical support and clinical calculators.