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Doctors are warning the UK medical regulator that wider use of physician associates in the NHS may risk patient safety and lead to greater inequalities in care in deprived areas that struggle to recruit GPs.The governments plan to recruit 10,000 physician associates 鈥?healthcare professionals supervised by doctors 鈥?has angered many clinicians who consider the roles ill-defined and a potential threat to patient safety.The General Medical Council GMC is to reg
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A conservative gadfly lawyer who has made a career of skewering Democratic administrations is taking his battle against the National Security Agencys telephone surveillance programme to a federal appeals court.Activist attorney Larry Klayman won the first round in December, when the US district judge Richard Leon, a Republican appointee, ruled that the NSAs surveillance programme probably runs afoul of the US constitutions ban on unreasonable searches. The government appealed.In court filings in preparation for Tuesdays argument, the Justice Department told three Republican-nominated appeals judges that collecting the phone data is of overriding and compelling importance to the nations security.The former NSA systems analyst Edward Snowden revealed the phone data collection effort a year and a half ago, triggering a debate over privacy rights and surveillance.In New York, the US court of appeals for the second circuit recently heard arguments in an appeal of a judges opinion that found the su
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