And now, analysis of NHS statistics has shown that people in poorer areas – who already have fewer doctors per thousand residents anyway – are the ones bearing the much greater brunt of the replacement of what ‘doctors’ they do have by non-doctor ‘associates’. James Steen, head of the British Medical Association (BMA) in London, has published charts showing the statistics for access to ‘clinical’ staff by wealth and the percentage of ‘associates’ – and finds that the poor have less access and among those they can access, the percentage of associates without medical training is far higher

These graphs are actually from here, and the analysis was done by Madeline Sherratt and Jaimie Kaffash. Very shoddy on Skwawkbox’s part given how easily I has able to find them.