Health, Social Care and Sport Committee Neil Gray MSP Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care 29 April 2025 Dear Cabinet Secretary Anaesthesia Associates and Physician Associates The Health, Social Care and Sport Committee considered the following statutory instrument at its meeting on 16 January 2024: • The Anaesthesia Associates and Physician Associates Order 2024 [draft] The then Cabinet Secretary for NHS Recovery, Health and Social Care wrote to the Committee on 14 December 2023 in advance of its consideration setting out that the instrument was to be the “first stage of a long-awaited reform programme which initially aims to provide the GMC with the necessary powers and duties to effectively regulate AAs and PAs.”