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Tuesday 22 October 2024
Salisbury Foundation Trust

FOI_7862

Internal Reference Number: FOI_7862

Date Request Received: 04/04/2024 00:00:00

Date Request Replied To: 09/04/2024 00:00:00

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Request Summary: Physician Associates (PAs)

Request Category: Media

 
Question Number 1:
I would like to request the following information within the time frame, March 2020- March 2024.

Number of Physician Associates (PAs) Employed: Please provide the total number of Physician Associates employed in your trust for the stated time period, year by year.
 
Answer To Question 1:
2020/21 zero
2021/22 zero
2022/23 zero
2023/24 <5
 
Question Number 2:
Prospective Employment: Please disclose the number of Physician Associates your trust plans to employ in the next 5 years, or business cases out for employing PAs in the next 5 years.

 
Answer To Question 2:
The Trust currently have no approved business cases to increase the number of Physician Associates within the Trust over the next 5 years. Any future business cases will be considered on a case by case basis in due course.
 
Question Number 3:
I would like to request the following information within the time frame, March 2020- March 2024.

Prescriptions (please provide this data for each month of the stated time period, within a spreadsheet):

A) Please provide the total number of physician associates who have made unauthorised prescriptions?

B) The earliest and latest date a prescription was made by a physician associate?

C) Please list all controlled medications and cytotoxic drugs prescribed by physician associates, and the total number of occasions on which they were prescribed?

 
Answer To Question 3:
A) None
B) Non applicable
C) Non applicable
 
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