Discover and learn which professions make up the 14 varied AHP roles, including a brief summary of each. Read the AHP strategy for England and how it will provide strategic direction to the AHP community across England. Find out about the annual chief allied health professions officer's awards. Information on the CAHPO Gold Award for Excellence.

AHPs provide system-wide care to assess, treat, diagnose, and discharge patients across social care, housing, education, and independent and voluntary sectors. Through adopting a holistic approach to healthcare, AHPs can help manage patients’ care throughout the life course from birth to palliative care.

Our Allied Health Professionals (AHPs) help people live their lives as fully as possible by treating, rehabilitating, and improving the lives of patients. We provide opportunities for members to build on their specialist skillset.

As part of the ambition to ensure sustainable future staffing and improve patient care, the NHS England Long Term Workforce Plan identifies good quality preceptorship for the wider workforce as key to supporting recruitment, supporting staff to integrate into their places of work, and supporting staff retention.

Allied Health Professionals, or AHPs, are the third largest professional workforce in the NHS. Thirteen different professions belong to the workforce, contributing to the collective well-being and public health and affecting the population's physical, mental, and social well-being.

There are many different AHP roles, ranging from emergency response and radiography to podiatry and speech therapy, and with our world-class training and support, you’ll be able to make yours exactly what you want it to be.

Allied Health Professionals (AHPs) make up the third largest clinical workforce in the NHS. They work in a variety of settings, including hospitals, patients’ homes and in the community, and play a key role in improving the health and wellbeing of patients.

There are currently fourteen registerable titles for Allied Health Professions (AHPs), covering 15 specific roles. The brief descriptions below were co-produced with the Workforce, Training and Education (WTE) Directorate in NHS England and the professional bodies, reflecting how each AHP profession would like to be recognised.

Applying to become an AHP. The main route to becoming an AHP is an undergraduate or postgraduate degree approved by the Health and Care Professions Council or the General Osteopathic Council (GOsC) for osteopaths. Degree apprenticeship. You can also train for some AHP roles through a degree apprenticeship.

The Allied Health Professions (AHP) Strategy for England: AHPs Deliver, has been developed to provide strategic direction to the AHP community across England, to help the AHP community and those they work with maximise their contribution to the aim of improving health outcomes for all, providing better quality care, and improving sustainability ...