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Chief Health Professions Officer
The Chief Health Professions Officer (CHPO), Karen Middleton is the Government’s most senior allied health professions advisor. These pages provide up to date information about the allied health professions and the work of the CHPO at the Department of Health.
Role of the Chief Health Professions Officer
Biography of Karen Middleton, the Chief Health Professions Officer, with an overview of her responsibilities.
Modernising allied health professions (AHP) careers: a competence-based career framework
Published: 16 July 2008
The Modernising Allied Health Professions Career (MAHPC) work is a workforce initiative to maximise the contribution AHPs can make to transforming health and social care.
AHP Services Improvement Programme
About new tools designed to help AHPs improve services and contribute to meeting the 18 weeks target: the AHP Services Information Management Handbook, and the Physiotherapy Pathway Improvement Tool.
What are allied health professionals?
An overview of the role allied health professionals play within health and social care in England.
Allied health profession disciplines
Details of each of the allied health profession disciplines, with links to their professional bodies.
Self referral pilots to physiotherapy: information pack
An information pack on this work, which is being undertaken on six pilot sites.
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