NES Medical Associate Professions (MAPs)

GMC consultation ‘How we’ll regulate PAs and AAs’  

GMC opened  Regulating anaesthesia associates and physician associates: consultation on our proposed rules, standards and guidance - GMC (gmc-uk.org)  on 26^th March 2024. The consultation closed on  20^th May 2024. This is the next stage in the journey towards statutory regulation of these roles.

GMC states ‘This consultation asks for your comments on our proposed rules, standards and guidance that set out how we will regulate anaesthesia associates (AAs) and physician associates (PAs).

It also covers draft principles that will inform the content of fitness to practise decision-making guidance that will apply to doctors as well as to AAs and PAs from December 2024.’