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NHS Trusts: Standards

Asked by Dr Neil Shastri-HurstConservativeDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled Answered 24 November 2025UIN 91825

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of current national oversight arrangements for the implementation of the framework set out in the document Maintaining High Professional Standards procedures within NHS trusts.

Answered by Karin Smyth

Maintaining High Professional Standards was first published in 2005, and it remains an important framework for the initial handling of concerns about doctors and dentists in the National Health Service. All Department and NHS England guidance documents are kept under review.

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