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NHS Trusts: Standards

Commons · Question 91825 · Tabled 17 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 24 Nov 2025

Question

Asked by Neil Shastri-Hurst

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of current national oversight arrangements for the implementation of the framework set out in the document Maintaining High Professional Standards proced

Answer

Answered by Karin Smyth, 24 Nov 2025

Maintaining High Professional Standards was first published in 2005, and it remains an important framework for the initial handling of concerns about doctors and dentists in the National Health Service. All Department and NHS England guidance documents ar...