A coroner has said that the public is being misled on what an NHS physician associate (PA) does what after a woman dies after failures in a hospital, including a wrong diagnosis with a nose.

Pamela Marking left in February 2024 after vomiting blood at A&E at the East Surrey Hospital and tenderness in its favor.

She was told by a PA that she was made up of a nose and was sent home, but the 77 -year -old man had actually a hernia and died four days later after her care after her care and died after studying in the hospital after complications.

A spokesperson for a Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust said it will “look carefully in the coroner’s report” to improve the services and learn lessons to provide lessons to provide the safest possible care.

He said, “Our deepest sympathy remains with the family and loved ones of Ms. Marking in this difficult time.”

“We want to express our deep regrets to their loss.”

An NHS spokesperson said that NHS “has always been clear that doctors are not replacement for doctors and should only practice with proper medical supervision”.

“But there are valid concerns about roles,” he said.

Coronor’s prevention of Future Deaths Report, sent to the Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England, PA did not understand the importance of MS Marking’s symptoms and did not fully examine them.

Dr. Karen Henderson, Surrey’s Assistant Coronor, said the word “misleading”, the Physician Associate and said that “lack of public knowledge” was that they were not medically qualified.

PAs are graduates – usually with a health or degree of life science – who have done two years of postgraduate training.

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The NHS stated that they work under the supervision of a doctor and diagnose people, take medical history, do physical examinations, can see patients with long -term conditions, analyze the results of the test and develop management plans.

Dr. “This staining of roles without public knowledge … the medical profession has the ability to reduce and weaken public belief.”

He said that it could also “compromise the safety of the patient” with the PAS, which potentially plays a role outside their merit.

The Department of Health and Social Care said that it launched an independent review among physician colleagues to “establish the facts and ensure that we should get the right people at the right places that provide the right care.”

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