Stop Replacing Our Doctors With Non-Medics! Implement the Leng Review!

Rejected 18 signatures

What the petition asks

Govt. accepted the recommendations of the Leng Review into physician/anaesthesia associates (assistants). These recommendations should now be implemented in the light of concerns raised around patient safety, role clarity and the expanding presence of these professionals in healthcare settings.

These professionals are being employed more and more, many working beyond their scope, eg. in GP, seeing undifferentiated patients (against the Leng recommendations). Patients have died due to PAs working above their competencies. Trusts are still advertising for PAs/AAs when the role should be taken by a doctor, many of whom face unemployment. Patients are confused by these various 'consultants' who are not medically qualified. They think they're seeing a doctor. Doctors are being replaced!

Why it was rejected

The UK Government or Parliament was already taking the action it asked for.

https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/response-to-the-recommendations-of-the-independent-review-of-physician-associates-and-anaesthesia-associates-the-leng-review-2/

Timeline

1 Dec 2025	Petition opened for signatures
14 Jan 2026	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 18

Status Rejected

Rejected 14 Jan 2026

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