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Physician Associates |
| Question ID: |
1790813 |
| UIN: |
42866 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-03-31 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4811 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Navendu Mishra
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Navendu Mishra
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many physician associates were employed by the NHS in England in each of the last 10 years; and if he will make an assessment of the potential implications for his policies of trends in the num |
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false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-04-04 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4444 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Karin Smyth
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| Answering Member handle: |
karinsmyth
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@karinsmyth
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| Answer text: |
We do not hold data on physician associate (PA) numbers for each of the last ten years, but the table below provides figures for the number of full time equivalent (FTE) PAs employed in both National Health Service trusts and primary care from 2017 to 202... |
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| Answering body ID: |
17 |
| Answering body name: |
Department of Health and Social Care |
| Tweeted: |
true |