Support
We are committed to being a compassionate regulator and we want to make sure that PAs and AAs are supported through an investigation of their fitness to practise.
Information for physician associates or anaesthesia associates under investigation
If we decide to investigate a concern about your fitness to practise, we know it can be a difficult and stressful time. These pages contain information and support available to physician associates (PAs) and anaesthesia associates (AAs). There's also information about our investigation processes and the actions we may take.
Fitness to practise and investigations
How we investigate concerns about PAs and AAs
Understand how we investigate and assess the concerns about physician associates and anaesthesia associates
Our measures
A guide to the measures we can impose on physician associates and anaesthesia associates who have fallen below the standards we expect of them.
Assessments
Health assessments
If we believe that your health may adversely affect your ability to practise safely, we may ask you to take a health assessment. Find out more about what this means.
English language assessments
Understand the process if we receive concerns about your knowledge of English from your employers or from patients.
How we make decisions about fitness to practise
Understand more about how we make decisions about a physician associate or anaesthesia associate's fitness to practise.
