Associate Medic Roles (FOI)

Request 694814016

1. Does the States of Jersey currently employ any physician associates or anaesthesia associates in its health service?

2. If none is currently employed, does the States of Jersey anticipate introducing these roles in the near future?

3. If these positions currently exist, what safeguards are in place to ensure a patient understands they are being seen either by a physician associate or anaesthesia associate rather than a fully qualified medical doctor, surgeon or anaesthesiologist?

Response

1

Health and Care Jersey do not have any Physician Associate or Anaesthesia Associate roles.

2

The question is a request for comment. Freedom of Information is a mechanism to enable access to information held in recorded form by a Scheduled Public Authority, rather than to pose questions requiring comment, opinion or speculation. Therefore, Article 3 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 applies.

3

Not applicable.

Article applied

Article 3 - Meaning of “information held by a public authority”

For the purposes of this Law, information is held by a public authority if –

(a)     it is held by the authority, otherwise than on behalf of another person; or

(b)     it is held by another person on behalf of the authority.​