Allied Health Professionals
Allied Health Professions (AHPs) make up the third-largest workforce of the National Health Services. They are primarily degree-level professionals who work independently in their fields.
The Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) regulates 13 of the 14 AHPs, while the General Osteopathic Council regulates osteopaths (GOC).
AHPs work across the social care, housing, education, and independent and voluntary sectors to assess, treat, diagnose, and discharge patients. AHPs can help manage patients’ care throughout their lives, from birth to palliative care, using a holistic healthcare approach.
Their focus is on health and well-being prevention and improvement in order to maximise people’s capacity to live full and active lives in their families, social networks, education/training, and workplaces.
There are 14 professions under AHP
- Art therapists
- Dramatherapists
- Music Therapists
- Chiropodists/ Podiatrists
- Dietitians
- Occupational Therapists
- Operating Department Practitioners
- Orthoptists
- Osteopaths
- Prosthetists and Orthotists
- Paramedics
- Physiotherapists
- Speech and Language Therapists
- Radiographers
Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
To ensure the safety and efficacy of their profession, the HCPC extensively examines candidates to see if they satisfy required requirements, including the quality of training courses.
To protect the public, the regulator has a variety of objectives, including:
- Standard: The HCPC establishes educational, training, and practice standards for respective professionals.
- Professional Programmes: The regulator approves the programmes that professionals must finish in order to become registered.
- Maintain Records: The HCPC maintains a list of professionals, referred to as registrants, who meet their requirements.
- Action: If professionals on the HCPC’s Register fail to achieve the required criteria, the HCPC will take appropriate action.
On a number of subjects, such as the development of standards or releasing recommendations, the HCPC must interact with stakeholders.
Professional bodies, government, employers, trade unions, service users, and the general public are among the organisations and persons with which the regulator collaborates in carrying out its UK-wide obligations.
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We work with the NHS
The National Health Service (NHS) in the UK ensures universal healthcare. The NHS is one of the world’s greatest, safest, and most inexpensive healthcare systems. Although the NHS employs many British/UK nationals, certified experts from around the world work there.
Aside from the professional competency baseline, these experts are subjected to severe requirements specified by the NMC UK.
The NHS was founded in 1948 on the belief that adequate healthcare should be offered to everybody regardless of wealth.
Except for prescriptions, optical treatments, and dental care, the NHS in England is free to all UK residents.
It sees about a million patients every 36 hours.
The NHS was rated the best healthcare system in the world by the Commonwealth Fund in 2014. This included efficiency, effectiveness, safety, coordination and patient-centred treatment
