Wes Streeting

Wes Streeting

Labour — Ilford North

Speaking in the House of Commons on 19 November 2024

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Indeed there has. Medical associate roles can and do play a valuable role in freeing up other clinicians’ time to do the things that only they can do, but there are legitimate concerns within the professions about scope of practice, doctor substitution and transparency for patients. We need to grip that and address it. We will have a further announcement to make about that shortly.

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