Question follow-through · 6637
Physician Assistants: Unemployment
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many qualified physician associates and anaesthesia associates are not in employment.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 3 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 8 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 8 Jun 2026 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many qualified physician associates and anaesthesia associates are not in employment.
8 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Jun 2026
Answer published
The independent Leng Review involved the College of Medical Associate Professionals, the United Medical Associate Professionals, and the Association of Anaesthesia Associates, as well as professional bodies representing doctors, in the development of its ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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