PRIMARY CARE

Allied Health Professionals

The Allied Health Professions (AHPs) are the third largest workforce in the NHS. In the main they are degree level professions, and are professionally autonomous practitioners. 13 of the 14 AHPs are regulated by the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) with Osteopaths regulated by the General Osteopathic Council (GOC).AHPs provide system-wide care to assess, treat, diagnose and discharge patients across social care, housing, education, and independent and voluntary sectors. Through adopting an holistic approach to healthcare, AHPs are able to help manage patients’ care throughout the life course from birth to palliative care. Their focus is on prevention and improvement of health and wellbeing to maximise the potential for individuals to live full and active lives within their family circles, social networks, education/training and the workplace.

Find out more about the fourteen allied health professions.

What's happening

Opportunities & Events

LANCASHIRE AND SOUTH CUMBRIA AHP 2025 PEARL AWARDS (Practice Educators Awards for Recognising Learning)

NEW yearly PEARL Poster 2025

NEW PEARL awards nomination form V2 (1)

What's happening

Resources

Guide for late career AHPs supporting students in practice-based learning

HEE has produced a guide to address the challenges identified in growing additional practice-based learning capacity across health and social care systems and private, voluntary and independent organisations by supporting employers to offer flexibility to those staff that are considering retirement or would like a change in career direction before leaving the health service. Access the guide here.

AHP Implementation guidance for Primary Care

The dedicated link which includes the job description worked on with each professional body can be found here.

The guidance includes:

  • Employment options within the DES ARRS
  • example job descriptions
  • potential areas of focus for the professions in relation to
  • Training requirements and expected skill sets aligned to the publications from Health Education England including Profession specific roadmaps
Consultation Skills

Welcome to the new home of Teaching and Learning Consultation Skills (TALC Skills) and Healthy English:

www.consultationskills.com

TALC Skills covers all aspects of consulting with a patient, whether you are a GP or another healthcare professional, and aims to make consultations more enjoyable and more efficient.

These valuable free resources can be used independently by anyone who wants to learn or improve their consultation skills – or by educators. TALC Skills is an RCGP award-winner and its popular podcast has already received more than 28,000 downloads.

Healthy English has been developed to help everyone who works with patients become a better user of English. It addresses the language and communication needs of international health and care staff, their trainers and colleagues working in the UK.

Access to both of these resources is free of charge to NHS people and organisations.

Sign up and join hundreds of other colleagues across the country who are using this trending new resource. 

New programme offers all Allied Health Professionals (AHPs) the opportunity to build digital and data skills
A Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) collaboration has led to the launch of a new digital education programme that gives physiotherapists and all UK AHPs access to digital and data knowledge and practical skills.
 Funded by the NHS Digital Academy and by the CSP Charitable Trust, the CSP, in collaboration with Keele University, EL Healthcare Education and the other AHP professional bodies has launched the Digital and Data Foundations education programme.
Open Access for all AHPs
 The programme is free to access for all UK AHPs (including students and support workers). Although hosted by the Digital Academy, access is open for those not working in the NHS and working in other parts of the UK.
 The programme is module-based with bite-sized content allowing for learners to access it in their own time around other work or studying commitments. It is supported by multimedia, interactive content, case studies from real AHPs, and reflective activities to support the AHP to apply the learning in their own team, service or setting.
Access to the programme
After completing a short registration process, all UK AHPs (including students and support workers) can gain access to the programme through the NHS Digital Academy Campus.

Find out more about HEE’s offer to AHPs via their two page guide and also progress last year with our 2019/20 infographic.

Visit our Placements page here.