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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