Question follow-through · 73651

Physician and Anaesthesia Associate Professions Independent Review

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he plans to take to implement the recommendations of the Independent review of the physician associate and anaesthesia associate roles, published on 16 July 2025.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

About this written question

A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.

Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
1 Sept 2025
Target answer date
3 Sept 2025
Answer
12 Sept 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling

Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.

More questions by this MP on Health and care

Shared topic keywords suggest a connection; they do not establish a follow-up.

Votes on this topic

These Commons divisions share a topic label. The question did not necessarily lead to a vote.

Recorded timeline

  1. 1 Sept 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he plans to take to implement the recommendations of the Independent review of the physician associate and anaesthesia associate roles, published on 16 July 2025.

  2. 3 Sept 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 12 Sept 2025

    Answer published

    The Leng Review’s recommendations are far reaching and require cross-system partnership working to be considered, planned, and delivered effectively. The Department, alongside NHS England, royal colleges, and other stakeholders including representatives o...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

Possible follow-up questions

Strong links require the same MP, department and exact heading. Other same-department questions are shown as unreviewed candidates, not as confirmed follow-ups. No debate link is asserted unless a stable source relationship exists.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Hospitals: Per Capita Costs

2 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average per-patient spend is per hospital (a) in England and (b) within the top quarter of most efficient hospitals.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Hospitals: Standards

2 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what comparative assessment he has made of the efficiency (a) rural and (b) urban hospitals; and how many hospitals in each of those categories are within the top quarter most efficient hospitals.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Hospitals: Per Capita Costs

2 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the potential financial impact of aligning funding to the average per-patient spend of the top quarter most efficient hospitals on rural hospitals.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Hospitals: Per Capita Costs

2 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the difference is between per-patient spend in (a) each hospital, (b) the average per-patient spend of hospitals in the top quarter of efficiency and (c) the average per-patient spend of hospi

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Hospitals: Air Ambulance Services

2 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether funding is available to upgrade hospital helipads to enable night-time operation.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Pharmacy: Standards

5 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure continuity of access to prescription medicines in towns where a single operator pharmacy fails to meet its contractual obligations.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Pharmacy: Contracts

5 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the criteria for approving operators to take over NHS community pharmacies is sufficiently robust to prevent service failures.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Jhoots Pharmacy

5 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the the suitability of Jhoots Pharmacy as a provider of NHS pharmacy services.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Jhoots Pharmacy

8 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has had discussions with Jhoots Pharmacy on unpaid (a) staff wages and (b) suppliers.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Medicine: Research

12 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to provide support to the Global Surgery Network for projects in (a) Nigeria, (b) India, (c) Mexico and (d) other countries.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Medicine: Research

12 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to provide funding to the NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Global Surgery after June 2026.