Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 70216

Anaesthesia Associates and Physician Associates

Tabled: 22 July 2025
Answered: 1 September 2025

Question

Tom Rutland

LabourEast Worthing and Shoreham

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Independent report entitled The Leng review: an independent review into physician associate and anaesthesia associate professions, published on 16 July 2025, what steps is his

Answer

Karin Smyth
The principal question of the Leng Review was to assess whether the roles of physician associate and anaesthesia associate, now to be known as physician assistants and physician assistants in anaesthesia, are safe and effective. The review’s findings were...

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