In addition, Karen Middleton reflects on the achievements of the last five years as she prepares to move to her new Chief AHP role at the NHS Commissioning Board.

To read these stories and more, click on the links below.

AHP Bulletin – March 2013

• Voicepiece
• News
• Prescribing
• Recovery, rehabilitation, reablement
• Awards
• Clinical developments
• Consultations
• Informatics
• NICE
• Patient involvement
• Training and development
• Service redesign and improvement

Download the AHP Bulletin, March 2013 edition (PDF, 307 KB)

Gateway reference number: 18866

Disclaimer: Unless otherwise stated, guidance referred to in the bulletin has not been commissioned or endorsed by the Department of Health – it is evidence that organisations and professionals may find helpful in improving practice.  The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence is the Department’s provider of accredited evidence and guidance, which can be found on the Institute’s website

In addition, Karen Middleton reflects on the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust public inquiry report and the future priorities for the NHS.

To read these stories and more, click on the links below.

AHP Bulletin – February  2013

• Voicepiece – Karen Middleton
• News
• Prescribing
• Recovery, rehabilitation, reablement
• Awards
• Clinical developments
• Consultations
• Informatics
• NICE
• Patient involvement
• Public Health
• Service redesign and improvement
• Reader survey

Download the AHP Bulletin, February 2013 edition (PDF, 225KB)

Gateway reference number: 18766

Disclaimer: Unless otherwise stated, guidance referred to in the bulletin has not been commissioned or endorsed by the Department of Health – it is evidence that organisations and professionals may find helpful in improving practice.  The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence is the Department’s provider of accredited evidence and guidance, which can be found on the Institute’s website

In addition, Karen Middleton reports back on the recent 3millionlives programme AHP event and looks at how AHPs can use telehealth and telecare in their day to day practice.

To read these stories and more, click on the links below.

AHP Bulletin – December 2012

• Voicepiece – Karen Middleton

News

• Stroke audit report recommends seven day working
• Centre for Professional Workforce Development launched
• NICE seeks advisory committee members
• Paramedics launch new project on standard education
• 3millionlives programme: telehealth and telecare
• Record number of AHP referrals via Choose and Book
• £5 million for veterans in need of new posthetics
• Lisa Hughes to move to Health Education England
• Bowley Close Rehabilitation Centre
• Orthoptists – an invisible profession?
• Event looks at inter-professional skills and simulation training
• Triangle of Care
• Study into best practice tariffs published
• TV choir singer shares positive experience
• ‘Speaking Up’ Charter launched
• National Respiratory learning event

Prescribing

• Update on independent prescribing for podiatrists and physios

Recovery, rehabilitation, reablement

• Access to Work

Awards

• Awards for six AHPs
• Macmillan Excellence Awards

Clinical developments

• Early OT intervention improves recovery after hip surgery
• New guidelines for practice in secure hospitals
• Online self management support resource centre

Consultations

• Comments sought on proposals to strengthen NHS Constitution
• Shape of Training Review
• Consultation on new safeguards to protect patients

Informatics

• 3millionlives project
• Connecting with orthoptists
• Payment by results

NICE

• New evidence updates

Patient involvement

• The 15 steps challenge

Public health

• Winterwatch launches for 2012
• Renew push for flu vaccinations announced
• Dementia challenge progress report published
• Stay one step ahead of the weather this winter
• Cold Weather Plan for England – 2012
• CMO’s first annual report

Service redesign and improvement

• First mandate to the NHS Commissioning Board published
• NHS Outcomes Framework 2013-2014
• General and acute providers to collect AHPs referral to treatment information
• Radiotherapy services in England 2012

• Parliamentary questions (PQs)

Reader survey

Download the AHP Bulletin, December 2012 edition (PDF, 260KB)

Gateway reference number: 18567

Disclaimer: Unless otherwise stated, guidance referred to in the bulletin has not been commissioned or endorsed by the Department of Health – it is evidence that organisations and professionals may find helpful in improving practice.  The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence is the Department’s provider of accredited evidence and guidance, which can be found on the Institute’s website

To read these stories and more, click on the links below.

AHP Bulletin – October 2012

• Voicepiece – Karen Middleton
• Keep Talking – professionalism
• 3millionlives programme: turning the spotlight on telehealth and telecare
• Thirteen AHPs welcomed on board the Clinical Leadership Programme
• Independent prescribing for podiatrists and physios – update
• Dementia – ‘early diagnosis’ awareness campaign
• Suicide prevention strategy launched
• European Antibiotic Awareness Day
• Annual report of the National Allied Health Professions Patients’ Forum published
• HEA and CoDH announce collaboration to influence policy and practice within health education
• Number of missed outpatient appointments drops
• Self Care Week: 12-18 November 2012
• Measuring patient experience of integration in the NHS
• CQC consultation on new strategy proposals
• Stoptober campaign
• Stop smoking service monitoring and delivery guidance 2012/13 now published
• Changes to the provision of the Healthy Start scheme
• Choose and Book update
• Healthwatch England launched
• The Health Foundation’s new online resource centre
• Health professionals encouraged to get flu jab
• Parliamentary questions (PQs)

Download the AHP Bulletin, October 2012 edition (PDF, 146KB)

Gateway reference number: 18271

Disclaimer: Unless otherwise stated, guidance referred to in the bulletin has not been commissioned or endorsed by the Department of Health – it is evidence that organisations and professionals may find helpful in improving practice.  The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence is the Department’s provider of accredited evidence and guidance, which can be found on the Institute’s website

Karen Middleton launches ‘Keep Talking’ – the next stage of the Big Conversation on professionalism with the aim of encouraging and continuing the debate on this important issue.

To read these stories and more, click on the links below.

Download the AHP Bulletin, August 2012 edition (PDF, 157KB)

Gateway reference number: 18080

Disclaimer: Unless otherwise stated, guidance referred to in the bulletin has not been commissioned or endorsed by the Department of Health – it is evidence that organisations and professionals may find helpful in improving practice.  The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence is the Department’s provider of accredited evidence and guidance, which can be found on the Institute’s website.

We meet Peter Eckersley, a physiotherapist selected as one of the 15 AHPs taking part in this year’s Clinical Leadership Fellowships at the NHS Leadership Academy.  Read about his experience so far and why he thinks AHPs should be stepping forward as leaders . We also find out why two physiotherapists from Yorkshire found themselves on the other side of the world to transform Queensland’s AHP workforce.

You will also find the usual mix of news, features and resources for the AHP community.

Download the June 2012 issue of the AHP Bulletin (PDF, 143KB)

Click on the link to read:

• Voicepiece: Karen Middleton
• David Davis: the information strategy
• AHP Leader Profile: Peter Eckersley
• The Calderdale Framework – down under
• N3 enabling 21st century healthcare
• Five AHPs receive Honours
• New president for College of Occupational Therapists
• Report on end of life care in England
• Developing the long term conditions outcomes strategy
• Third edition of the long term conditions compendium of information
• QISMET publishes standard for health management programmes and interventions
• Occupational therapy vital for stroke recovery
• New NHS information service for parents
• Consultation on tobacco packaging launched
• Clinical academic opportunities for AHPs
• Medical aids for daily living – new guidance
• Parliamentary questions
• News in brief

 Gateway reference number: 17779

Disclaimer: Unless otherwise stated, guidance referred to in the bulletin has not been commissioned or endorsed by the Department of Health – it is evidence that organisations and professionals may find helpful in improving practice.  The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence is the Department’s provider of accredited evidence and guidance, which can be found on the Institute’s website.

This is one in a series of planned special bulletins that will be dedicated to important current topics. We hope that you will find it useful and informative.

You can help us plan future editions by sharing your views on this special, whether content, style or subjects you would like to see covered in the future. Just post your comments below, or email your views to ahp-branch@dh.gsi.gov.uk

Click on a link to read the story:

• Information technology – today’s reality
• National AHP Informatics NHS Network
• Choose and Book – making AHP services available
• Choose and Book speeds up referral to treatment time
• Choose and Book mythbuster
• AHPs and understanding informatics
• Harnessing the Patients’ Voice
• NHS Choices explained
• eICE – free online learning modules
• NHS Number and AHPs
• Summary Care Record
• Award winner improves telecare alarm services for patients
• National PACS contracts coming to an end

Download the AHP Informatics Special (PDF, 115KB)

Gateway reference number: 17458

Disclaimer: Unless otherwise stated, guidance referred to in the bulletin has not been commissioned or endorsed by the Department of Health – it is evidence that organisations and professionals may find helpful in improving practice.  The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence is the Department’s provider of accredited evidence and guidance, which can be found on the Institute’s website.

In this month’s issue, Chief Health Professions Officer Karen Middleton revisits the Big Conversation in the aftermath of the SHA cluster AHP conferences, and encourage all AHPs to keep up the fantastic response received so far.

Leadership is a key theme this month. We take a look at the work of the new NHS Leadership Academy, encourage AHPs to apply for the latest round of Clinical Leadership Fellowships and meet current fellow Sally Greensmith, who shares her experiences of the programme so far.

Click on the links to read more:

• Voicepiece – Karen Middleton
• AHPs just do it – the message for the SHA cluster conferences
• Profile: Sally Greensmith
• New toolkit shows AHPs can improve care and save NHS money
• Seven day services – better care and saving money
• Have you had the ‘conversation’ yet?
• National centre of excellence for NHS leaders opens
• Clinical Leadership Fellowships – apply now!
• AHP Clinical Network
• CCG authorisation
• Recognising leadership in the NHS
• Early implementers sought to test long-term conditions Year of Care Funding Model
• Let’s Get Moving campaign
• Occupational therapists work on groundbreaking CBeebies programme
• Digital pens make life easier for AHPs in Rotherham
• Self Care Week 2012
• ‘Act FAST on Stroke’ campaign launch
• Refurbishment of Royal Free radiology department
• Tobacco display legislation now in place
• Parliamentary questions
• News in brief

Download the AHP Bulletin, issue 88, May 2012 (PDF, 90KB)

Gateway reference number: 17596

Disclaimer: Unless otherwise stated, guidance referred to in the bulletin has not been commissioned or endorsed by the Department of Health – it is evidence that organisations and professionals may find helpful in improving practice.  The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence is the Department’s provider of accredited evidence and guidance, which can be found on the Institute’s website.

Consultant podiatrist for diabetes Debbie Sharman reveals why her service has been named ‘Best in the South West’ and Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust share their ‘Better For You’ programme which has helped to improve their service in productive therapies.

All this and the usual mix of news, information and guidance for AHPs.

Click on the links below to read:

• Voicepiece
• SHA cluster AHP conferences are go!
• Productive therapies at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
• AHP leader profile: Debbie Sharman
• Five AHPs awarded in New Year Honours List
• Clinical dashboards – information you need, when you need it
• AHP referral to treatment data collection
• New commissioning network for Merseyside
• Improving outcomes by working together
• Implementing seven day working in imaging departments
• Call from the QIPP evidence collection
• Royal visit celebrates world class occupational therapy research
• NHS pensions proposals: the facts
• National directiors appointed
• New booklet to guide disabled people into sports
• Access for NHS and social care staff to the Lancet online
• Be Clear on Bowel Cancer campaign
• Stop the alcohol sneaking up on you
• NHS Mobile Working Knowledge Centre
• Parliamentary questions
• News in brief

Download the AHP Bulletin February 2012 (PDF, 130KB)

Gateway reference number: 17267

Disclaimer: Unless otherwise stated, guidance referred to in the bulletin has not been commissioned or endorsed by the Department of Health – it is evidence that organisations and professionals may find helpful in improving practice.  The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence is the Department’s provider of accredited evidence and guidance, which can be found on the Institute’s website.

• Voicepiece: Karen Middleton, Chief Health Professions Officer on looking to the future
• First UK wide AHP summit
• NE AHP Collaborative holds ‘Business Skills’ day
• Coventry’s integrated OT and physio service
• AHP Leader Profile – Moira Flanigan
• New prosthesis incorporates smart phone
• AHP Leadership Awards – the winners
• Guide for using quality improvement tools
• AHP Leader Profile – Nicky Brown
• Guide to improve housing for older people
• Personal health budget pilot to share across NHS
• Parliamentary questions
• News in brief

Download AHP December 2011 bulletin (PDF, 131KB)

Gateway reference number: 17008

Disclaimer: Unless otherwise stated, guidance referred to in the bulletin has not been commissioned or endorsed by the Department of Health – it is evidence that organisations and professionals may find helpful in improving practice.  The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence is the Department’s provider of accredited evidence and guidance, which can be found on the Institute’s website.