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Primary and Community Care AHP Workforce Guidance: Organising principles to optimise utilisation

Primary and Community Care AHP Workforce Guidance: Organising principles to optimise utilisation can be found here:

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The National workforce implementation plan: Addressing NHS Wales Workforce Challenges 2023 sets out specific requirements relating to AHPs. Noting Action 74:

HEIW will use the Primary and Community Care Allied Health Professions (AHP) Workforce Guidance: Organising principles to optimise utilisation. to shape and influence workforce developments e.g. the Strategic Primary Care Workforce Plan, Musculo skeletal framework etc, to ensure the impact, wellbeing, professional governance and skill mix of AHPs is maximised.

 

The Allied Health Professional (AHP) ambition in Wales is for well- integrated services, rooted in community, with full range of practitioner levels and prudent optimisation of AHP skillset. 

With clear objectives to:

  • Provide clarity around the evidence based AHP offer
  • Look at the AHP workforce in totality from a collaborative AHP leadership perspective
  • Inform and support planning to meet presenting population needs and regional priorities
  • Ensure effective accessibility and utilisation of AHP skillset across Primary and Community Care
  • Identify gaps and requirements from a well - integrated, whole system workforce planning basis
  • Create sustainable models of delivery that support multiple stakeholders
  • Deliver the high quality, high value services required to deliver person-centred support, within a place-based care model of care

This guidance provides the organising principles / actions required for the whole health and social care system, to optimise the Allied Health Professions (AHPs) offer across Primary and Community Care, ensuring we create sustainable models of delivery that support multiple stakeholders. Deploying AHPs from a well - integrated, whole system workforce planning basis to deliver the high quality, high value services required. Ensuring care and support is delivered closer to home, in the setting most appropriate for the individual.

It describes whom the AHPs are, the current challenges in terms of progress to date and competing priorities, and focuses on the conditions conducive to optimising AHP utilisation. Providing clarity around the evidence based AHP offer to inform and support planning to meet presenting needs and regional priorities.

Ensuring effective accessibility and utilisation of AHP skillset across Primary and Community Care, which is paramount to the delivery of person-centred support, within a place-based care model of care.

It is fully aligned to Accelerated Cluster Development (ACD)  in order to achieve this ambition and informed by the principles of:

A Healthier Wales

The Primary Care Model for Wales

The Allied Health Professions (AHP) Framework: Looking Forward Together