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Physician Assistants: Redundancy

Commons · Question 73650 · Tabled 1 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 11 Sep 2025

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Asked by Edward Morello

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an estimate of the potential impact of his proposed reforms to the Physician Associate role on the number of redundancies of Physician Associates.

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Answered by Karin Smyth, 11 Sep 2025

The principle question of the Leng Review was to assess whether the roles of physician and anaesthesia associate, which we recommend should now be known as physician assistants and physician assistants in anaesthesia, are safe and effective. The review’s ...