List of courses approved with conditions attached

These courses have met most of our standards but have outstanding areas which require further assurance.

• University of East London PA course

The open conditions linked to the above course approval are listed below:

1. The provider must review clinical placements to ensure they cover a breadth of disciplines and settings in order to ensure that students are able to meet the GMC's generic shared learning outcomes. The provider must consider more placement time for students in secondary care in areas such as acute medicine, general medicine (including care of the elderly), cardiology and respiratory medicine.
2. The provider must continue to develop their programme of assessment including the following elements:
• the assessment strategy
• the assessment blueprint, which evidences that all of the generic shared learning outcomes are assessed robustly for each individual student
• standard setting
• responding to feedback from their external examiner
• psychometric analysis
• faculty development in assessment
3. At its own cost, the course provider must ensure that before students from cohorts one and two are graduated, they pass a final assessment at another PA programme agreed by the GMC.

The legislation for the regulation of PAs and AAs allows us to attach conditions on approval when most of our standards are being met, but some areas require further assurance. By attaching conditions to approval, we ensure that any outstanding areas of our standards can be addressed through a targeted action plan and additional quality assurance activities.

We have agreed a targeted action plan for each course approved with conditions and will be able to withdraw conditions as soon as we are satisfied that our standards are being met in full. We will update this page accordingly.

How has the list changed?

• The University of Bolton was amended to the University of Greater Manchester following the approval of name change by the Office for Students in December 2024.