Allied Health Professions

(asked on 17th January 2024) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she plans to take steps to regulate additional Medical Allied Professionals.


Answered by
Andrew Stephenson Portrait
Andrew Stephenson
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 23rd January 2024

In 2017, the Government consulted on proposals to regulate four medical associate professions: physician associates (PAs), physicians’ assistant (anaesthesia), now called anaesthesia associates (AAs), surgical care practitioners and advanced critical care practitioners. On 7 February 2019, the Government published its response to the consultation, confirming its decision to introduce statutory regulation for PAs and AAs only.

The Government keeps the professions subject to statutory regulation under review and in 2022, published the consultation, Healthcare regulation: deciding when statutory regulation is appropriate, seeking views on the criteria used to decide when regulation is necessary, and whether there are any unregulated professions that should be brought into statutory regulation. The response to this consultation will be published in due course.

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