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National Allied Health Professional Advisory Board

  • Last modified date:
    28 July 2011
  • Gateway reference:
    15858
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The National Allied Health Professional Advisory Board (AHP-PAB) provides professional oversight and expertise to the Department of Health, informed by patients and external partners, to influence decisions about the planning and development for the allied health professions and secure the workforce necessary to improve the quality of care.

  • To provide collective expertise and advice on strategic workforce planning and development across the allied health professions
  • To make recommendations, via the Chief Health Professions Officer, to the Workforce Leadership Group within the Department of Health 
  • To comment on workforce and education commissioning plans as they emerge
  • To articulate the benefits of a modernised AHP workforce to inform workforce planning and development

The Board

  • Holds bi-monthly meetings Co-Chaired by Lisa Hughes, Allied Health Professions Officer, Department of Health and Professor Ieuan Ellis, Chair, Council of Deans of Health and with representation from a wide range of stakeholder organisations
  • Maintains robust communication channels with stakeholders to ensure co-production and subsidiary
  • Ensures all its functions and decisions are informed by the patient and carers voice as represented within the National Allied Health Professional Patients’ Forum
  • Focuses on the impact of workforce planning and development on delivering high quality care for all
  • Takes an evidence based approach and where appropriate collaborate on  relevant research and reports from the Centre for Workforce Intelligence and other sources as required
  • Uses information from Strategic Health Authorities workforce plans, the Centre for Workforce Intelligence, professional bodies and other national and international sources
  • Through the Co-Chairs, interfaces with the other National Professional Advisory Boards to ensure workforce planning, education and training of all professionals  is undertaken in collaboration
  • Promotes the sharing of good practice resulting from implementation of the “Modernising Allied Health Professions (AHP) Careers: A Competence–Based Career Framework”
  • Reviews its processes and achievements annually and produces an annual report

Membership

National Allied Health Professional Advisory Board

Lisa Hughes, Co-Chair, Allied Health Professions Officer, Department of Health
Professor Ieuan Ellis, Chair, Council of Deans of Health

 

 Stakeholder organisation/network Elected Representative 
 Allied Health Professions Federation (12 Professions)  4
 SHA Workforce and Education Leads Networks  1
 SHA AHP Leads Group  1
 Public Sector People Managers Association  1
 PCT Commissioners Network  1
 NHS Employers  1
 The Patients' Association  1
 Skills for Health  1
 Social Partnership Forum  1
 Council of Deans of Health  1
   
 National Allied Health Patients' Forum  
 Chair: Roswyn Hakesley-Brown, The Patients Assn  
   
 Membership  
 5 patients  
 1 carer  
 Carers UK & Princess Royal Trust for Carers  
 Diabetes UK  
 Age UK  
 Stroke Association  
 Arthritis Care  
 Macmillan  
 Compassion in Dying & Dignity in Dying  

 

What we do

Objectives for 2010/11

  • Demonstrate the contribution the AHP workforce makes to leading and transforming patient-led health care services through delivering better health outcomes and saving money to inform workforce planning and education commissioning
  • Work with patients and other key stakeholders to identify the size, shape, education and development of the AHP workforce necessary to improve the quality of prevention, cure, rehabilitation and care delivery
  • Highlight the existing and potential contribution AHPs make to the health and well-being of the healthcare workforce and reducing sickness absence

Achievements

Overarching achievements

  • Built reputation and improved visibility of AHPs
  • Good stakeholder engagement through membership representing networks
  • Agreed key principles for responding to White Paper consultations
  • Formal responses from PAB to CHPO on key workforce issues such as education commissioning

Setting up the National Allied Health Professional Patients' Forum

  • Commenced after PAB established and initial work streams set
  • Inform and influence PAB decisions
  • Make recommendations to PAB
  • Comment on AHP-PAB outputs
  • Independent work streams to drive PAB thinking
  • Findings of workshop on patients' perceptions of allied health professionals has led to research being commissioned and influenced PAB communications strategy.
  • Focus on End of Life Care
  • 2011/12 - moving to joint planning of work streams and PAB being 'driven' by Patients' Forum

 Overseeing the delivery of Modernising AHP Careers

  • Phase 1: AHP Career Framework early implementer reports on Skills for Health website
  • Calderdale and Huddersfield Foundation Trust
  • Cheshire and Merseyside Critical Care Network
  • NHS London
  • Phase 2: Final report due for publication
  • Research due for publication
  • Economic case for AHP advanced practice
  • Developing an AHP research culture
  • Perceptions of AHP careers
  • Making best use of allied health professionals – HSJ Webimar

Contacts

For further information concerning the National Allied Health Professional Advisory Board (AHP-PAB), and the National Allied Health Patients' Forum, please use the links below.  

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