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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.
Step up to the Allied Health Professional Leadership Challenges
Leaders make a difference to service users, colleagues and organisations.
Could you be the difference they need?
Apply as an individual or as part of a team to affirm and develop your leadership skills with the Allied Health Professional Leadership Challenges:
What is a challenge event?
The “Leadership Challenges” are “business games” based on fictional, but realistic scenarios in a variety of health and social care economies, to identify the existing qualities, and those to be developed in the leaders of the future.
The vision is that teams of Health Professions Council-registered AHPs from diverse backgrounds will collaborate in competition with other teams, using their creativity to solve the challenges posed. Individuals can apply and, if successful, will be allocated to teams. The best performing teams in each of the ten SHA events will go forward to a high profile, national event on the 16 and 17 June 2009. The legacy of all these events is that they then become embedded in the SHA leadership and development cycle. It is hoped that, in time, they will become part of a multi-professional leadership challenge series.
By supporting the development of leadership in AHPs, it is envisaged that services within health and social care economies will be improved and transformed. This will benefit both users of those services and the organisations that commission and provide them.
When and where are the events happening?
| Region | Dates |
|---|---|
| North West SHA | 20 and 21 April |
| East of England SHA | 23 and 24 April |
| North East SHA | 27 and 28 April |
| West Midlands SHA | 29 and 30 April |
| South Central SHA | 5 and 6 May |
| South West SHA | 7 and 8 May |
| South East Coast SHA | 11 and 12 May |
| Yorkshire and Humber SHA | 14 and 15 May |
| East Midlands SHA | 18 and 19 May |
| NHSL SHA | 21 and 22 May |
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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Nominations for clinical lectureships
The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) and CNO Christine Beasley launched the NIHR/CNO clinical lectureship scheme for nurses, midwives and AHPs on 18 May. The scheme aims to develop research capacity in the NHS by providing support for post-doctoral research training and continuing development of clinical expertise. Institutions are now invited to nominate post-doctoral nurses, midwives and AHPs for the lectureships. Individuals who believe they may be strong candidates are urged to contact appropriate organisations to make the nomination on their behalf. Nominations close at 1 pm on Friday 24 July 2009.
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