To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 2 November 2022 to Question 77355 on Anaesthesia Associates and Physician Associates: Regulation, if it is still his intention to publish the public consultation on the draft legislation aimed at enabling the General Medical Council to regulate physician associates and anaesthesia associates by the end of 2022.
Answered on
9 January 2023
The Government remains committed to the work which will enable the General Medical Council to regulate Anaesthesia Associates and physician associates. We plan to publish the public consultation on the draft legislation early in 2023.
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Department of Health and Social Care
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