Question follow-through · 101171
General Practitioners and Physician Assistants
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department are taking to help ensure that GPs are not replaced with Physician Associates.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 17 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 5 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 5 Jan 2026 · 19 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
17 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department are taking to help ensure that GPs are not replaced with Physician Associates.
5 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Jan 2026
Answer published
We are clear that physician assistants, still legally known as physician associates, are there to support doctors, not replace them. Professor Leng’s recent review findings were clear that, with changes in line with its recommendations, there remains a pl...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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