Fees

  1. Summary
  2. Registration
  3. Fees
  4. Professional standards
  1. Revalidation
  2. Education and training
  3. PAs and AAs in practice
  4. Raising a concern

When PAs and AAs apply to become regulated professionals, they’ll need to pay a fee which covers their first year of registration. On the anniversary of their registration each year, they'll also pay an annual fee to remain registered with us.

You can find the current fees listed on our schedule of fees.

We review our fees annually and adjust in line with inflation each April. We aim to keep all our fees as low as possible while ensuring we can carry out our statutory responsibilities.

Below we’ve outlined what the fee covers and how we’ve calculated it.

What the fee covers

The fee covers the expected cost of regulating PAs and AAs. And fulfilling our statutory responsibilities, as outlined in legislation, to:

  • Set the standards of patient care and professional behaviours PAs and AAs need to meet.
  • Set the outcomes and standards that students qualifying from PA and AA courses must meet to achieve registration. And approve the curricula that courses must deliver. 
  • Check who is eligible to work as a PA or AA in the UK and that they continue to meet the professional standards we set throughout their careers.
  • Investigate where there are concerns that patient safety, or the public’s confidence in PAs and AAs, may be at risk, and take action if needed.

The fee will also contribute to our general organisational costs and overheads. As well as our work to provide guidance and support to PAs and AAs. Helping them understand their professional responsibilities and maintain the standards expected throughout their careers. 

The costs of regulating PAs and AAs are currently met from a combination of PA and AA fees and specific funding from the Department of Health and Social Care. 

How we’ve calculated the fee 

The costs of regulating PAs and AAs will be funded by the fees they pay, just as doctors pay for their regulation.

We calculated the fee based on the anticipated costs of regulating PAs and AAs and fulfilling the statutory duties outlined in legislation.

PAs and AAs have a flat fee structure, with a single registration fee and annual fee. The current fee is listed on the schedule of fees for physician associates and anaesthesia associates.

As the true cost of regulating PAs and AAs becomes clearer over time, we’ll keep our fees under review to understand if any adjustments are required.

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