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Developing AHP leaders: a guide for trust boards and clinicians

NHS England and NHSI have produced a new guide to developing AHP Leaders.

This new interactive PDF resource shares the findings from a project thye have been working on to explore common factors which contribute to AHP leadership development.  By combining trust executives’ expectations of AHP leadership, with individual accounts from chief AHP leaders (see also – ‘Investing in chief allied health professional leadership: insights from trust executives’), they have identified the common features that combine to create a platform and framework for AHP leadership at all levels and an extensive list of helpful resources, hints and tips.

It was developed to provide ideas and opportunities for aspiring AHP leaders and those who support the development of the AHP workforce, to ensure that the AHP workforce is developing the leaders required for the future.

guide will also be useful for:

  • AHPs with leadership aspirations
  • those supporting the development of future AHP leaders
  • those developing AHP leadership capacity and capability within their organisation and system
  • those supporting AHP workforce appraisal processes
  • career coaching and mentoring conversations

It can be downloaded on the NHSI website: https://improvement.nhs.uk/resources/developing-allied-health-professional-leaders-guide. or can be downloaded by clicking here

 

 

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National AHP Dementia WEBEX

All AHPs have been invited to join the National AHP Dementia WEBEX – sharing practice; connecting people, connecting support.

Date   –   Wednesday 27th November

Time   –   3.30 – 4.20pm (50 min session)

Topic  –     The delivery of a person-centred, Food First model of care, for people living with dementia in Highland social care settings

Guest presenter –Evelyn Newman, Dietician NHS Highland 

 

To join the WEBEX you need to

  1. Email wendy.chambers@nhs.net to register (if you are joining as a group then only 1 person needs to register the group)
  2. Have access to internet/computer to view the slide show during the WEBEX
  3. Have access to a landline phone to join the audio; listening to the presentation and joining the WEBEX discussion

 

Please ensure you have registered by the 25th November

email:      wendy.chambers@nhs.net

Twitter :  @wendyAHPDem

work mobile:   07843345627

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Australian Orthotic Prosthetic Association Congress 2019

Australia’s P&O conference

#AOPA19 returns to Melbourne for three days of unmissable education, networking and collaboration for all professionals involved in orthotic and prosthetic care. Please join us at the purpose-built Crown Conference Centre from October 24th-26th for Australia’s premier orthotic and prosthetic event.

Date:                           24th-26th October 2019

Location:                     Crown Conference Centre, Melbourne

Title:                            AOPA Congress 2019 “Innovation in Action”

Hyperlink:                    https://www.aopa.org.au/events/event/aopa-congress-2019

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Representing P&O

Our Professional Affairs committee works hard to ensure P&O is represented on all of the relevant consultations in health care. This means that P&O is not forgotten and is including when commissioners are considering services

Some of our latest inclusions in national pathways this year include

The ‘AHP maternity care pathway’ consultation and AHPs in Care Homes

 

 

The committee alongside the executive also try to do their best to help our members make sense of complicated documentation a great example is the new MHRA Guidance Document

 

 

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#BAPO2020

Dates have just been released for #BAPO2020 and this time conference will be held in April!

Put the dates in your calendar now because this is going to be the best conference yet with a new format and some exciting new programmes.

Keep an eye on our website and social media channels for updates coming out over the next few months and early bird tickets will be released in October.

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AHP’s in Care Home

NHS Improvement & AHP colleagues have produced a joint supporting publication for the AHPs into Action programme for supporting healthcare in care home.  

It is available at https://www.england.nhs.uk/ahp/ahps-into-action/  or can be downloaded here: Quick Guide AHPs Enhancing Health in care homes

This quick guide will support AHPs and service leaders to meet the priorities and ambitions for care home residents detailed in the NHS long term plan.  The NHS long term plan details 4 strategic priorities for community health services, one of which was the roll out of the Enhancing Health in Care Homes Framework. The ambition includes a focus on nutrition and hydration and provision of support from the right professionals when care home residents have been unwell, including rehabilitation.

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Moving Medicine

Moving Medicine, developed by the Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine UK in partnership with Public Health England and Sport England, is an online resource that has been developed to assist physical activity conversations between healthcare professionals and their patients by adopting a motivational interviewing framework and evidence-based recommendations specific to their condition.

They have developed a new module for lower limb amputees and are now seeking feedback regarding its content.

They would be grateful if you would follow the link below to review the module and take the time to complete a brief survey regarding it, in order for us to optimise the resource prior to it being formally launched.  Please do this by 18th August.

https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/6KLJHFC

To learn more about Moving Medicine and to view additional modules that are already freely available online please visit www.movingmedicine.ac.uk.