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The government has confirmed its commitment to prioritising the reform of healthcare professional regulation in the UK. We warmly welcome the plans to modernise the regulatory framework for doctors, a long-standing priority for the GMC.

The General Medical Council (GMC) has today, 10 April, announced formal approval of 36 courses that teach physician associates (PAs) and anaesthesia associates (AAs).

Following my January email, I wanted to share an update on the progress we’re making to implement regulation for physician associates and anaesthesia associates.

Following the Supreme Court’s judgment last week defining a woman under the 2010 Equalities Act, and misleading media reporting that subsequently followed, the GMC has issued the following statement.

The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges (AoMRC) has published new resources commissioned by the General Medical Council (GMC) to provide doctors with easily-accessible information to help improve patient care.

The GMC welcomes the decision of the High Court, in a judgment handed down today, to dismiss on all three grounds a judicial review claim brought by the British Medical Association (BMA). In the claim they had challenged our decision to apply our core professional standards – Good medical practice – to doctors, physician associates (PAs) and anaesthesia associates (AAs) and our use of the term "medical professionals" within this guidance.

The General Medical Council has submitted its response to Professor Gillian Leng’s independent review of the physician associate and anaesthesia associate professions in England.

The profile of our profession is changing. When I started medical school in 1975, the year of the Sex Discrimination Act, I was one of a minority of women in my year.