Priority Setting Partnership
The AHP WRaP team are working on a Priority Setting Partnership in association with the James Lind Alliance, in order to find out what the most important unanswered questions are around the AHP workforce for research to prioritise. Please scroll to the bottom of this page to find out how to get involved.
What is a Priority Setting Partnership?
Priority Setting Partnerships (PSPs) identify and prioritise evidence uncertainties, or ‘unanswered questions’ in a particular area – in this case the Allied Health Professions (AHP) workforce. Unanswered questions will be gathered from people that work in AHP services, or have received care or treatment from them. Together, they will decide the top ten research priorities for the AHP workforce. This kind of prioritisation helps to provide support for funding future research, and helps researchers look at the most important questions.
Please scroll down to find out how to take part in the AHP Workforce PSP.
Who are the James Lind Alliance?
The James Lind Alliance (JLA) is a non-profit making initiative, established in 2004. It brings patients, carers and clinicians together in PSPs for many different topic areas. PSPs are supported and guided by JLA Advisers, who are independent consultants and act as neutral facilitators to make sure that the process is followed in a fair and transparent way. They ensure equal input from the perspectives of patients, carers and clinicians. For more information on the JLA priority setting methodology watch this short video or find out more at https://www.jla.nihr.ac.uk/.
About the AHP Workforce PSP
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 to recruitment and retention, diversity, leadership roles, skills mix, AHP training & education, and career progression.
We would like to hear from: - Patients and public with experience of accessing AHP services (service users)
- The Allied Health Professions as defined by NHS England (https://www.england.nhs.uk/ahp/role/)
- AHPs working within any UK setting.
- AHPs who have recently left or retired from their profession (within the last 5 years).
- Pre-registration AHPs (learners)
- AHP support workforce (e.g., support workers, technicians, assistant practitioners etc)
We have now launched both our staff survey, and our survey for patients and the public. If you would like to take part, please click on the relevant link below.
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