BAPO Private Practice Insurance for 2024/2025
For those currently working in Private Practice, you may not be aware BAPO offers a Private Insurance Cover extension available exclusively to BAPO members. This policy runs between May 1st to April 30th each year.
Last year, this cover cost £600 and we are delighted to be able to hold the cost for another year. Please note due to the nature of the cover, it has to be purchased in a single payment and cannot be paid by Direct Debit or split payments.
This cover affords every member with a claims limit of £10M in any insurance year for Medical Malpractice, Public and Product Liability.
From April, you will be able to purchase your 2024/2025 Private Insurance Cover extension online, through your BAPO membership profile. Please note, this is only available to BAPO full members and member graduates.
Please follow these steps to activate or renew your insurance:
1. Log in to your BAPO account. Not a member? Join here
2. In the ‘Private Practice Insurance’ box on your account, click “View/Update”.
3. In the “renewing your insurance” box, click “Create Private Practice Insurance record.”
4. On the insurance record below, click “Edit.”
5. Answer the three displayed insurance questions.
6. Select your payment method – Stripe (electronic card payments) or BACS (If paying by BACS this can take 1-5 days for payments to process and certificates will be sent when payments have cleared.)
7. Once payment is confirmed, the Secretariat team will activate your insurance and your Private Practice Insurance certificate will be available via an automated email.
8. You will also be able to view and download your BAPO Private Practice Insurance certificate, the Proof of Insurance letter and the full policy document confirming your cover by logging into your member profile, navigating to “My Membership” tab and accessing the “PPI Certificates and policy details” section.
9. If your new insurance record does not show immediately, please contact enquires@bapo.com before making another payment.
If you have any further questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact us at enquiries@bapo.com
Music in dementia.
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We are pleased to share some interesting information from the NHS in Scotland, via the link below:
https://services.nhslothian.scot/artspsychotherapies/music-in-dementia/
Also, Edinburgh Napier University are looking for people interested in providing feedback about their needs for CPD courses in Dementia.
For further information, please contact Ashleigh Gray: a.gray2@napier.ac.uk
BAPO Short Course Waiting List – June to December 2024
We would like to invite you to register your interest and join the waiting lists for the forthcoming BAPO Short Courses which are planned for this year.
Job Advert – Blatchford – Dual Practitioner – Prosthetist/Orthotist, Brighton
Job Advert – TalarMade – Two Orthotist Opportunities, Lincolnshire
Introducing Tab Heeley – Clinical Standards Officer
BAPO is pleased to welcome Tab Heeley to the BAPO team as the new Clinical Standards Officer.
Tabby graduated from the University of Salford in 2017, and began her career working as a prosthetist across the West Midlands and North Wales. Since March 2024, Tabby has taken up the role of Clinical Skills Tutor at the University of Salford, and has also taken on the Clinical Standards Officer role within BAPO. She continues to enjoy practising prosthetics one day a week, at the Wrexham Artificial Limb and Appliance Centre.
Tabby is openly autistic, and has a special interest in neurodiversity; through her work with the University and with BAPO, she hopes to challenge perceptions of autistic people both within our profession, and in the wider world.
Job Advert – Blatchford – Dual Practitioner – Prosthetist/Orthotist, Kettering
Job Advert – Blatchford – Principal Prosthetist, Birmingham
Allied Health Professions Workforce Development Plan – Feedback required
HEIW AHP Workforce Development Plan
HEIW AHP Workforce Paper CYMRAEG
Dear Stakeholders,
Health Improvement Education Wales has now drafted the Allied Health Professions Workforce Development Plan. This high-level plan has been created following specific workforce engagement events and in response to the National Workforce Implementation Plan. This will aim to enable priorities and actions for AHPs in Wales.
We would welcome your feedback on the plan. We have provided a Microsoft Form and responses close on 31 March 2024.
https://forms.office.com/e/4ahFy0hHG1
Kind regards
Nicky Thomas
Associate Director of Health Allied Professions Workforce Transformation
Louise Leach
AHP Strategic Program Manager
Annwyl Randdeiliaid,
Mae Addysg Gwella Iechyd Cymru bellach wedi drafftio Cynllun Datblygu’r Gweithlu Proffesiynau Perthynol i Iechyd. Mae’r cynllun lefel uchel hwn wedi’i greu yn dilyn digwyddiadau ymgysylltu penodol â’r gweithlu ac mewn ymateb i’r Cynllun Gweithredu Gweithlu Cenedlaethol. Bydd hyn yn anelu at alluogi blaenoriaethau a chamau gweithredu ar gyfer AHPs yng Nghymru.
Byddem yn croesawu eich adborth ar y cynllun. Rydym wedi darparu Ffurflen Microsoft ac mae’r ymatebion yn cau ar 31 Mawrth 2024.
https://forms.office.com/e/4ahFy0hHG1
Cofion cynnes
Nicky Thomas
Cyfarwyddwr Cyswllt Trawsnewid Gweithlu Proffesiynau Perthynol i Iechyd
Louise Leach
Rheolwr Rhaglen Strategol AHP