The British Association of Prosthetists and Orthotists

BAPO

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Orthotics Quality Improvement Collaborative

New Orthotics Quality Improvement Collaborative Launched Today

Following our continued campaigning and pressure from within the Orthotics profession, today saw the launch of the Orthotics Improvement Collaborative. This is a 14-month project funded by NHS England and delivered by NHS Improvement. The project aims to improve the experience and outcomes of service users. A project team has been set up with the following people in the core group:

Name Role Organisation
Joanne Fillingham Joint Chair, Project Co-Sponsor NHS Improvement
Neil Churchill Project Co-Sponsor and Subject matter expert: patient experience NHS England
Caroline Poole Joint Chair, Senior Responsible Officer NHS Improvement
Rebecca Loo Subject matter expert: Co-production The Orthotics Campaign
Claire Marshall Subject matter expert: patient experience NHS England
Matt Frederick Subject matter expert: operational delivery Sherwood Forest NHS Foundation Trust
TO BE IDENTIFIED Commissioning Adviser TO BE IDENTIFIED
Richard Wilson Subject matter expert: Data NHS Improvement
Marie Couturier Data Adviser South, Central & West Commissioning Support Unit
Stephanie Gates Project Support Officer NHS Improvement
Nina Pearson Project Support Officer NHS Improvement

This project will see NHS Orthotics Services invited to participate the project, which is supported by a series of improvement events to empower service providers with improvement and development tools. Clinical teams shall gather simple data about their service, identify areas for improvement and make plans to address them using the tools taught by NHS Improvement. This is a great opportunity for service leads and clinicians to drive forward their ambitions for quality, boost their CVs and raise the profile of their services to their Trusts. Information and invitations shall be cascaded to services via  NOMaG. There are limited places on the collaborative so get in early for this fabulous career opportunity.

You can search Twitter for the Hashtag #QualityOrthotics to follow and contribute to the unfolding conversation.

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CAHPR Public Health Research Awards

CAHPR Public Health Research Awards 2019 – now open

2019 will be the fifth year CAHPR has run the awards. We are delighted to welcome involvement this year from AHPs4PH. In 2019, systematic reviews will be eligible for entry for the first time.

Three prizes will be awarded. Winners each receive the opportunity to showcase their poster at the Public Health England conference in September 2019 and £500 towards associated expenses.
The deadline for awards is 29 April 2019.

For further information and to apply, visit the Public Health Research Awards page for details. Information and guidance on how to enter is on the CAHPR website at: https://cahpr.csp.org.uk/content/cahpr-public-health-research-awards. The deadline for entries is 29 April 2019.

 

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NHS Improvement – Clinical Leadership

NHS Improvement has today published Clinical leadership – a framework for action, endorsed by the Allied Health Professions Federation. The framework looks at approaches organisations can take to encourage and enable more clinicians from all disciplines to pursue senior strategic leadership positions.

This document has been developed by a cross-directorate project team within NHS Improvement, as part of a wider programme of work following recommendations from the Government’s report: Barriers and enablers for clinicians moving into senior leadership roles: review report to the SoS for H&SC.

The guide includes 3 examples of AHPs in strategic senior roles – including Rachel McKeown (@Rachel66Mckeown), Clare Boobyer-Jones (@ClareBoobyerMPH) and Shane DeGaris (@Shanedegaris), including their associated case studies. There are only 11 case examples in the whole document, so AHPs have a very high profile within this national document. The guide and framework also reaffirms the recommendation from the June 2018 document, ‘AHP Leadership in Trusts in England: What exists and what matters’, which asked Trust boards to consider appointing a senior strategic AHP lead.

The key messages:

• The NHS Long Term Plan highlights the importance of visible senior clinical leadership in enabling and assuring the delivery of high quality care both within organisations and in the new system architecture.
• Allied health professionals, doctors, midwives, nurses, pharmacists, psychologists, healthcare scientists and social workers can all potentially contribute to strategic leadership but we need to look at career structures and expectations that may currently stand in their way.
• The framework has been developed through discussions with clinicians exploring some of the barriers and enablers they identify when moving into senior leadership positions.
• We want organisations to do more to actively involve clinicians in their leadership groups.
• Evidence suggests that professionally diverse teams are better equipped to meet the complex challenges facing the NHS.
• NHS Improvement’s ‘Clinical leadership – a framework for action’ highlights approaches organisations can take to encourage clinicians from all disciplines to pursue senior leadership positions. The framework is accompanied by a range of case studies in which clinicians from a range of disciplines share their own experience of the journey to senior leadership roles. As you will see, the guide includes three specific AHP case studies.

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We are the NHS

The NHS has transformed the health and wellbeing of our country in its 70-year history. Its future relies on its people, and their dedication in looking after our health.

From diagnosis to recovery, each patient journey is a result of collaboration from NHS England staff – from IT, digital and support professionals, allied health professionals such as orthotists and prosthetists to nurses and doctors, everyone who works in the NHS has a role to play in supporting patients.

As part of the “We are the NHS” campaign, the first recruitment drive for the NHS in over a decade, on Thursday 31st January, the campaign will focus on illustrating the stimulating and rewarding roles available in orthotics and prosthetics within the NHS.

The campaign supports commitments made in the NHS Long Term Plan to recruit more people into the workforce and ensure its staff have rewarding jobs and work in a positive culture, with opportunities to develop their skills and use state of the art equipment.

Orthotists and prosthetists working in the NHS make a difference to the lives of a wide range of patients, from cerebral palsy and stroke sufferers, to amputees. The campaign aims to inspire more people to consider a role as a prosthetist and orthotist in the NHS.

NHS staff touch the lives of the 1.4 million patients treated in England every 24 hours. Regardless of their specific role, all staff contribute to caring for each and every one of these patients with care and compassion when it matters most.

The NHS has grown to become the single biggest employer in the UK, with 1.3 million workers, making it the fifth-largest workforce in the world.

To find out more about the opportunities available right now, visit www.jobs.nhs.uk or keep an eye on our social media feeds to learn more about the campaign

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AHP Awards

The Chief Allied Health Professions Officer Awards celebrate the contribution AHPs have made in supporting improvements in health, care and wellbeing and the impacts described in AHPs into Action.

Our 10 awards this year are:
• AHP Leader of the Year 2019
• AHP Student of the Year 2019
• AHP Public Health Champion 2019
• AHP Quality Improvement 2019
• AHP Workforce 2019
• AHP Digital Practice 2019
• AHP Clinical Focus 2019: Cancer
• NICE into Action 2019
• AHP Research Impact 2019
• AHP of the Year 2019

Following the launch of the NHS Long Term Plan, the awards provide an opportunity to profile where AHPs are already leading and supporting priorities for the NHS over the next 10 years.
The awards are open to AHPs, student AHPs and AHP support workers working in publically funded services in England. Nominations can be made by individuals themselves, and by managers and leaders in respect of individual clinicians or teams.

Fore more information click here

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UK AHP & Nurse Internship Programme

For the first year the Versus Arthritis programme is now accepting applications from AHPs – Including P&O

See the press release here:

Applications open! Since 2015 the AHP and Nurse Internship Programme (funded by Versus Arthritis) has gone from strength to strength acquiring renewed funding from Versus Arthritis this year until 2021.  The  programme has expanded to include all Allied Health Professionals (HCPC registerable) and nurses with the addition of two further HEIs (Glasgow Caledonian and Keele Universities) to the Consortium that now  involves seven leading UK musculoskeletal research departments. The internship programme is well established and recognised for offering high calibre final year students and recent graduates the valuable opportunity to be one of eight national interns who are offered an eight week research placement at one of the HEIs that includes UK-wide study days, networking and on-going mentoring. The national programme is led by Professor Cathy Bowen with Mary Fry as Programme Manager both from the University of Southampton. Please cascade this information (link below) to student groups who may be interested and local and national colleagues within your profession

For further details please contact Mary Fry on M.L.Fry@soton.ac.uk. or see  https://www.versusarthritis.org/research/information-for-applicants/types-of-grant/

Deadline for applications is Monday 4th March

 

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NIHR Funding

New rounds of the NIHR funding for a pre-doctoral clinical academic fellowship, it is open to clinicians who offer treatment 50% of the time within the NHS.

NHIR Funding Link

 

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CPD Statement

A working group comprising organisations from across a range of health and social care sectors has launched a set of principles for continuing professional development (CPD) and lifelong learning.

The principles are designed to guide individuals, employers and wider systems to create a culture of continuous improvement, workforce development and improve outcomes for service users. People working in the health and social care workforce operate in a changing, challenging and complex environment. Practicing safely and effectively, now and in the future is essential.

The five principles are that CPD and Lifelong Learning should;
1. be each person’s responsibility and be made possible and supported by your employer
2. benefit the service users
3. improve the quality of service delivery
4. be balanced and relevant to each person’s area of practice or employment
5. be recorded and show the effect on each person’s area of practice

Will Broughton, Director of Professional Standards for the College of Paramedics and Chair of the working group, said:
“We believe that the health and social care workforce should have the opportunity to undertake CPD activity and these five principles clearly illustrate how developing new knowledge, skills and evidence-based working will produce an effective workforce, who are well-equipped and prepared to deliver high quality services.
It is our intention to evaluate the impact of the principles next year ahead of a review in January 2021. We welcome feedback from people working across the health and social care workforce that will contribute to further versions of this document.
Thank you to all members of the working group, the organisations who hosted our meetings and for the behind the scene support that got this to finished project.”

Please follow this link to access the publication:
https://www.collegeofparamedics.co.uk/publications/principles-for-cpd

or Click Here to Dowload

The Interprofessional CPD and Lifelong Learning UK Working Group is made up of: Allied Health Professions Federation Scotland, Association of Clinical Scientists, British Association of Art Therapists, British Association of Music Therapy, British and Irish Orthoptic Society, British Dietetic Association, Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, College of Operating Department Practitioners, College of Paramedics, Institute of Biomedical Science, Royal College of Nursing, Royal College of Occupational Therapists, Royal Pharmaceutical Society, The British Association of Prosthetists and Orthotists, The British Psychological Society, The Royal College of Midwives, The Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists, The Society and College of Radiographers, UNISON and Unite the union.

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Office of Students Survey

An Invitation to Participate in a National Survey

This is an in invitation to participate in a study being conducted as part of a one-year project funded by Office for Students. The study consists of two parts. Part one is an on-line survey and part two is participation in a focus group discussion. This message is about completing the survey. Please see the Participant Information Sheet which tells you about the survey. If you wish to participate in the survey, there is a link attached. If you click on the link it will take you directly to the survey where you can begin completing your responses.

https://salford.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/appreticeships-and-placements-initiative-3

You do not have to complete the survey in one sitting – it is possible to save your responses and come back at a later date to complete your responses before submitting your completed survey.

 

Many thanks for considering taking part in this survey.

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Promotional Videos

SIHED is working hard to continue to promote our professions and in conjunction with the NHS campaigns team have created some promotional videos.

You can see these going out on Facebook and Twitter this week or you can download them @ https://campaignresources.phe.gov.uk/resources/campaigns/77/resources/4284

These can be used at any careers event or within NHS trusts to encourage people to consider P&O as a career.