Realising the potential of advanced practice across the allied health professions – a conversation
The second free webinar hosted by The Allied Health Academy’s AHP Global: Advanced Practice Collective. This webinar will explore Advanced Clinical Practice within the UK, with England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales each having a framework for ACP covering allied health practitioners.
The snowballing pressure on health workforce globally and issues such as increasing complexity of care, the workforce need to optimise the realisation of the scope of practice of AHPs and building career pathways to retain Allied health professionals in practising roles is becoming a critical issue for workforce planning and service transformation.
The scope of practice of the allied health professions offers employers considerable untapped workforce potential, yet it is rarely understood or fully enabled. Our ability to learn together will transform our ability to draw upon areas of innovation and ensure attention to the needs of small and medium sized professions in a way not possible on a small geographical footprint.
Join us on 21 September 2023 at 9AM GMT/6PM AEST for a discussion led by Professor Beverley Harden, who established the Centre for Advancing Practice for Health Education England (now part of NHS England ), and chaired by Dr Susan Nancarrow, the CEO of HealthWork International.
Professor Beverley Harden: “Across each of the four UK nations, progress has been made within advanced practice and we have learnt a lot. The time is right to think ahead with one voice across countries and I suggest across the globe , working with our professional organisations to better illustrate the potential impact of the more specific speciality roles and the potential training pathways building on many of the assets we already have. This is a conversation relevant to UK and international colleagues as we look to roles more specific to the specialties within which we work.”
Program
Speakers
Chair: Dr Susan Nancarrow, CEO, HealthWork International & The Allied Health Academy
Susan is an allied health professional, health services researcher, recovering academic, and the Chair of the Allied Health Assistants’ National Association (AHANA). Susan has more than twenty years’ experience of international health services research, expertise and analysis, with a particular interest in the health workforce, models of health service organisation and delivery and the sociology of the professions.
Speaker: Professor Beverley Harden, Deputy Chief Allied Health Professions Officer for England, and Health Education England’s Allied Health Professions Lead.
In a career spanning more than 30 years, Professor Harden is recognised nationally as an accomplished health service leader with both operational and strategic leadership experience.
Professor Harden has led a variety of large multi-professional healthcare services, NHS trust education services, and complex service and workforce transformations across systems.
Since 2018, she has led work in her current role across England to enable employers to realise the full workforce potential of the fifteen allied health professions, secure and grow the future workforce, and develop the skilled allied health support, assistant practitioner and technician workforce.
In 2021, Professor Harden established the Centre for Advancing Practice to bring together clinical and education experts from across all professions, to develop educational and career pathways for enhanced, advanced and consultant-level practice. This is enabling more highly skilled staff to pursue more inclusive clinical career opportunities as advanced and consultant practitioners.