Multi-disciplinary Team Handbook

"This handbook brings together information about multi-disciplinary / integrated teams from a wide range of sources including publications, studies and operational examples for the purpose of providing a stimulus to the system to examine the type or types of teams that need to be in place to deliver integrated healthcare."

MDT Development: Working toward an effective multidisciplinary/multiagency team
NHS England
January 2015

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Assisting allied health in performance evaluation

"The findings of this review should inform the development of a standardised framework that can be used to measure and evaluate allied health performance"

Assisting allied health in performance evaluation: a systematic review
L Lizarondo, K Grimmer, S Kumar
BMC Health Services Research 2014, 14:572  doi:10.1186/s12913-014-0572-7

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Allied health professionals - Can we measure quality of care?

"In this report, we explore the quality of care and services delivered by allied health professionals (AHPs). AHPs are a group of autonomous practitioners who work with many other professionals and at many points along the care pathway." 

Focus on: Allied health professionals - Can we measure quality of care? (Quality Watch)
H Dorning, M Bardsley
Health Foundation, Nuffield Trust
September 2014

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Framework for personalised care and population health for nurses, midwives, health visitors and allied health professionals

"The Framework has been developed as a resource to support nurses, midwives, health visitors and allied health professionals’ access to best evidence and support them in delivery of their public health role. It is also a tool for clinical leaders, managers and commissioners to develop services which use the knowledge and skills of healthcare practitioners to deliver the best health outcomes for the populations they serve."

A framework for personalised care and population health for nurses, midwives, health visitors and allied health professionals: caring for populations across the lifecourse 
Department of Health, Public Health England
July 2014

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The barriers and facilitators to routine outcome measurement by allied health professionals in practice

"Routine outcome measurement may only be deliverable if appropriate action is taken at individual therapist, team, and organisational levels of an organisation."

The barriers and facilitators to routine outcome measurement by allied health professionals in practice: a systematic review
EAS Duncan, J Murray
BMC Health Services Research, 2012, 12:96

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Allied Health Professionals' QIPP Toolkits

"The Strategic Health Authority Allied Health Professionals (AHP) Leads for England have worked with NHS London to compile AHP QIPP Toolkits, designed to help commissioners design services that are of high quality whilst reducing cost."

Access the toolkits below:

• AHP Stroke Toolkit
• AHP Oral Nutritional Support Toolkit
• AHP Musculoskeletal Care Toolkit
• AHP Cancer Toolkit
• AHP Diabetes Toolkit