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Chief Health Professions Officer
The Chief Health Professions Officer (CHPO), Karen Middleton is the Government’s most senior allied health professions advisor. These pages provide up to date information about the allied health professions and the work of the CHPO at the Department of Health.
Role of the Chief Health Professions Officer
Biography of Karen Middleton, the Chief Health Professions Officer, with an overview of her responsibilities.
Framing the contribution of allied health professionals: delivering high-quality healthcare
Published: 21 October 2008
Document to frame the Next Stage Review for allied health professionals and describe the improved AHP service offer to patients and the public
Self-referral pilots to musculoskeletal physiotherapy and the implications for improving access to other AHP services
Published: 21 October 2008
Report of work to explore the impact of opening up access to musculoskeletal physiotherapy through self-referral where it had not previously been part of usual service provision. The report also considers the implications for access to other allied health professions services. Findings highlight benefi ts to patients and services.
Occupational therapy in adult social care in England: sustaining a high quality workforce for the future
Published: 21 October 2008
This report is the result of partnership working between the Department of Health and the College of Occupational Therapists (COT). It was commissioned in 2007 in light of the 'Options for Excellence' workforce review. It reflects the recognised need to build an occupational therapy social care workforce for the future by improving opportunities for student placements and supporting newly qualified staff.
Modernising allied health professions (AHP) careers: a competence-based career framework
Published: 16 July 2008
The Modernising Allied Health Professions Career (MAHPC) work is a workforce initiative to maximise the contribution AHPs can make to transforming health and social care.
AHP Services Improvement Programme
About new tools designed to help AHPs improve services and contribute to meeting the 18 weeks target: the AHP Services Information Management Handbook, and the Physiotherapy Pathway Improvement Tool.
What are allied health professionals?
An overview of the role allied health professionals play within health and social care in England.
Allied health profession disciplines
Details of each of the allied health profession disciplines, with links to their professional bodies.
Self referral pilots to physiotherapy: information pack
An information pack on this work, which is being undertaken on six pilot sites.
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