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First Contact Practitioners (FCP)
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FCP Taught Modules
Various Higher Education Institutes are offering fully funded FCP training.
For further information, please contact the relevant HEI below as they have differing acceptance criteria.
FCP Training
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Resources & Videos
Please find useful updates, information and resources below
First Contact Practitioners (FCPs) are a vital part of the wider primary care multi-disciplinary team.
A new toolkit brings together the essential resources to support the development and integration of FCP roles into the wider system. It provides quick links to relevant sources that cover all aspects of FCP roles from planning and implementing, through to demonstrating effectiveness and impact.
The CQC GP mythbuster 106: Primary care first contact practitioners (FCPs) has now been published supporting the Health Education England Roadmaps to practice for the five AHP professions (Physiotherapists, OTs, Dietitians, Podiatrists and Paramedics) moving into primary care to be proof of capability.
Within the document, the CQC outline their expectations regarding training, clinical supervision, job plans, induction, complaints and significant events and safe employment for FCPs. An FCP is any AHP clinician in primary care who is required to work at masters level clinically (clinically advanced).
Musculoskeletal (MSK) First Contact Practitioners – videos and other resources from HEE
FCP Expectations
See below Expectations of FCP Roles including; Physiotherapists, Physician Associates, Paramedics, Mental Health Practitioners, Dieticians and Occupational Therapists.
You can view and download the full PDF with all roles included, or you can download individual roles.
You can download the full PDF with all roles included, or you can download individual roles below.
