SoR members are being encouraged to participate in a survey as part of research taking place on the allied health professions workforce.
Known as the allied health professions (AHP) Workforce Priority Setting Partnership, the survey forms part of a five-year project at Sheffield Hallam University, called the AHP Workforce Research Partnership (AHP WRaP).
An important consultation is taking place, and this is your opportunity to ensure that what matters to you is prioritised for research.
The survey aims to identify the workforce areas that AHP practitioners, policy makers, professional bodies and patients think could be helped by further research. The results of the survey will inform the research being undertaken by AHP WRaP, as well as highlight important unaddressed questions about the AHP workforce. In addition, the outcomes will be shared with research funders, NHS policy makers and AHP professional bodies.
The AHP Workforce Research Partnership (AHP WRaP) is consulting with those working in frontline services delivered by Allied Health Professions, or in AHP management, leadership, academic, or policy roles to find out what questions about the AHP workforce need answering by research.
Who is eligible to take part in the survey?
Participants should identify with at least one of the following categories:
- AHPs, as defined by NHS England
- AHP service users
- AHPs working in any UK setting
- AHPs who retired from their profession in the last five years
- Pre-registration AHPs
- AHP support workforce
The survey is currently live and will be open for six weeks. To fill out the survey, or find out more about AHP WRaP, click here.
What is AHP WRaP?
In the next five years, AHP WRaP will liaise with NHS managers, healthcare staff, patients and carers to identify how AHPs can best be deployed to deliver healthcare. It will also look into the reasons for AHP shortages and recognise ways to advance care.
The research is taking place in association with the James Lind Alliance, a non-profit making initiative which facilitates bringing patients, carers and clinicians together through Priority Setting Partnerships to highlight unanswered questions.
A research team and a number of stakeholder groups are involved in the project, as are an independent oversight committee and a partnership board. Professor Julie Nightingale of Sheffield Hallam University is the programme director for AHP WRaP.