Welcome to the Allied Health Professions Federation
The Allied Health Professions Federation (AHPF) provides collective leadership and representation on common issues that impact on its member professions. The AHPF is well placed to ensure that health, social care and education decision makers understand the unique contribution of the allied health professions.
The overall purpose of the AHPF is to promote inter-professional working enabling Allied Health Professionals (AHPs) to provide high quality care for patients and their carers across the whole of the health and social care sectors.
The AHPF is a UK wide organisation and has management boards in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland. The AHPF Boards work to a shared agenda with delivery activity tailored to the unique context offered by each country.
The AHPF is currently focusing on the following themes:
- AHPs, both as specialist clinicians and clinical leaders, are key to the delivery of a high quality patient-centred service delivered at the right investment level to enable it to be sustainable
- AHPs are key to delivering a care service along complete care pathways
- Care pathways cross boundaries and are not just about traditional health services but may include other social care environments such as education, justice and local government. AHPs working across these boundaries are in a position to deliver optimum productivity gains
- Empowered AHPs can lead change and service transformation
AHPs are key to inspiring individuals to take a preventative approach to long term health
Recent AHPF and AHP News
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Health and Social Care Bill
Following the passage of the Health and Social Care Bill on 20thMarch 2012 the Allied Health Professions Federation still has concerns that some of the risks to sustainable patient services are unacceptably high, particularly in relation to the fostering of a competitive approach to service delivery.
However, we believe that the AHPF and its constituent organisations should engage with the implementation and secondary legislative process to ensure the optimum provision of sustainable AHP led or provided services integrated around the patient and his or her needs.
To do this we will aim for effective engagement with the government and other national structures, such as the NHS Commissioning Board, together with facilitating the engagement of individual local AHPs with their local Clinical Commissioning Groups and Health and Wellbeing Boards.
As the health and social care environment moves from transition into the new form the AHPF would like to see:
At a national level
- Regular engagement across the system from a professional perspective of the individual professional bodies or the AHPF
At a regional level
- Clinical Senates/networks with appropriate mandated AHP presence
- Effective and fully engaged AHP professional networks
At a local level
- AHP engagement with CCGs and HWBs
- Effective and fully engaged AHP professional networks
- Senior level AHP presence in service provider organisations
Biographies of key staff
