Monday  was an exciting day for the Trust.

Ten Physician Associates (PAs) joined the team. Seven will be based in Medicine and three will be working in Surgery.  PAs are healthcare professionals with a generalist medical education who work alongside the clinical teams and play an integral part of the multi-disciplinary team.  PAs have been practising in the UK for more than 10 years and are now working in more  than 20 speciality areas in the UK and it is a profession which is growing fast.

Our 10 new recruits all graduated from Leeds this year and this is their first post as a PA.  All will spend the first two years rotating through the specialities in their area and after two years will moved into one specific area. 

We are really pleased to have so many be able to start with us at the  same time – they will be able to support each other as week as develop a faculty to support their ongoing development