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Building the evidence and changing practice in the wider public health workforce

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Recently the Centre for Workforce Intelligence and Royal Society for Public Health published reports highlighting the importance of engaging the wider public health workforce to support improvement in population health. They identified several workforces such as the allied health professions …

Allied health professionals - a missed opportunity for commissioners?

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Allied Health Professionals (AHPs) are a large, relatively untapped public health resource with potential to impact on virtually every important issue affecting health and wellbeing. AHPs can improve lives and save health and social care services money by preventing falls, …

At the heart of it all: personalised care and population health

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This is the title of our second national conference focused on maximising the contribution of nurses, midwives, health visitors and allied health professionals (AHPs) to protecting and improving the public’s health.  Personalised care and population health is also the name …

Are allied health professionals the next major public health workforce?

I certainly think so.  There are over 80,000 allied health professionals (AHPs) working across the NHS, local government, education, private and voluntary sector organisations in England.  This is equivalent to at least a million contacts with the public each week.  …