Allied Health Professions

Optimising the Allied Health Professions (AHPs) offer and accessibility across Primary and Community Care in Wales.

The Allied Health Professions (AHP) Framework: Looking Forward Together sets out the AHP strategic response to A Healthier Wales and utilises the Quadruple Aim as an organising concept to describe the transformation required aligned to The Primary Care Model for Wales.

It identifies AHPs need to be utilised more effectively to inspire and enable people to lead healthier lives, be more easily and directly accessible, and work at the top of their ability with visible and transformational leadership. With ‘strong primary care’ at the heart of everything that they do.

This translates into the AHP ambition in Wales, for well-integrated services, rooted in the community, with the full range of practitioner levels and prudent optimisation of AHP skill set.

We need to 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.

With planning and delivery of primary and community care AHP services – which may be include at general practice, cluster, or regional level - being supported and informed by:

• Population needs / including health inequalities informing focus of attention and resource
• A skilled workforce – with requirement and development needs understood and actioned
• Implementation of ‘What good looks like’ / Frameworks and best practice – linking across to the National Clinical Framework
• Utilising data with purpose – transferring data to knowledge to focus attention and resource, and demonstrate the difference AHPs make