Monitoring of the GMC re registration of PAs and AAs
Dear Department of Health and Social Care,
Thank you for sending the Memorandum of Understanding between your Department and the General Medical Council (GMC) relating to implementing the regulation of physician associates and anaesthesia associates.
Q1. What monitoring does the DHSC undertake to ensure that the GMC is meeting its objectives in a timely and efficient manner? Where can results be viewed?
Q2. What supervision is there of expenditure/claims by the GMC to ensure financial probity and value for money? Where can results be viewed?
Q3. What oversight is there of the overall probity of the GMC, given its failure to provide transparency on its activities to registrants or to the public? (I refer, as examples, to the GMC's refusal to make public the outcomes of the consultation on PAs and AAs concluded in May and the recent claim that the consultation was actually research; and to the GMC's refusal to divulge the agreement between the DHSC and the GMC, i.e. the MoU so kindly provided by your Department.) Where can results be viewed?
Yours faithfully,
Susan Sollazzi
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Dear Ms Sollazzi,
Please find attached the Department of Health and Social Care's response
to your recent FOI requests (our refs: FOI-1544934 and FOI-1544935).
Yours sincerely,
Freedom of Information Team
Department of Health and Social Care
Dear Department of Health and Social Care,
Thank you for your full and helpful reply.
Yours faithfully,
Susan Sollazzi
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