Welcome!
The five-year Allied Health Professions Workforce Research Partnership (AHP WRaP) aims to improve patient care by ensuring staff in allied health roles – such as paramedics, physiotherapists and radiographers – have the right skills and are available when and where they are needed in NHS hospitals, community services, and general practice.
Our partnership brings together individuals and organisations from across disciplines and sectors in three regional workforce research hubs to deliver prioritised AHP workforce research using participatory approaches. The partnership is led by Sheffield Hallam University (PI Professor Julie Nightingale) with partners at Anglia Ruskin University, the University of Suffolk, University of Lincoln, University of Sheffield, and NHS East of England.
“The NHS is facing a shortage of allied health professionals, particularly in rural and coastal areas where attracting and retaining staff is especially challenging. As a result, some patients struggle to access vital services such as scans, cancer treatment, and rehabilitation. Our research is essential to understand the problem so we can help the NHS address the staffing crisis and improve patient care.”
Prof Julie Nightingale
Programme Director, AHP WRaP
Recent Updates
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AHPs Work and Health Event: The Three Shifts
? Date and time: Thursday 27 November 2025 2-4pm? Location: MS Teams The event will be hosted by Dr Laura Evans and opened by Beverley Harden MBE FCSP It will feature a keynote presentation from Rebecca Keating, author of Promoting work as a health outcome: guidance for AHP leaders – GOV.UKfollowed by Christine Joy FCIPD who will…
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AHP Workforce Survey Launched
The AHP Workforce PSP aims to work with the UK AHP workforce, along with representatives of the people and communities accessing their services, to identify the most important unanswered questions about the AHP workforce. The scope of the AHP Workforce PSP is defined as: Any aspects of the UK AHP workforce, including but not limited…