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
The AHPF has been concerned from the outset with some of the reforms to the NHS implicit in the Health and Social Care Bill, and associated implementation plans. The AHPF has written to the Prime Minister, (click here to see the letter) stating that it is unable to support the Bill in its current form.
The concerns centre on:
- The competitive approach to the delivery of health and social care as proposed by the H&SC Bill could well discourage integrated care pathways leading to fragmentation of services. This would adversely impact on patient care both in the short and the longer term.
- It is inappropriate to impose a major top down structural reorganisation on the whole of health and social care at a time of required and unprecedented efficiency savings of £20bn by 2015. These savings need to be driven by clinician led service redesign without those same clinicians being distracted by wholesale system change.
The AHPF firmly believes that the legislation and implementation guidelines as currently proposed contain a genuine risk to the continued and sustainable provision of a health and social care service that meets the needs of patients and sustains the values of the NHS enshrined in the NHS Constitution.
Biographies of key staff
