AHPs Day Scot
Resources for National Allied Health Professions Day #Scotland.
Who are we?
Allied Health Professions: art therapists, dramatherapists, music therapists, podiatrists, dietitians, occupational therapists, prosthetists and orthotists, paramedics, orthoptists, physiotherapists, diagnostic radiographers, therapeutic radiographers, speech and language therapists.
What is AHPs day?
You are once again invited to join other allied healthcare professionals (AHPs) to celebrate AHPs Day on Monday 14th October 2024.
As with previous years, AHPs join together, globally, in a day of collective action, to celebrate all the AHP professions and share what a positive impact we can make to people’s lives.
This year offers us the opportunity to continue to recognise the impact of AHPs focussing particularly on the impact we have on quality and safety.
We have a range of resources you might consider using to celebrate AHPs day. Resources to support national AHPs day | Turas | Learn (nhs.scot)
This year we will be posting on our X account, @NESnmahp, the NHS Scotland Facebook account https://www.facebook.com/NHSEducationforScotland and on the NHS Education for Scotland LinkedIn account (5) NHS Education for Scotland: Overview | LinkedIn
Please give us a follow and look out for our activity!
Use this handy guide below to schedule posts to go out on AHPs Day.
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So lets use this year’s AHPs day to think about how we demonstrate how we deliver high-quality and safe care.
We look forward to seeing your social media posts and connecting with you all.
Celebrate, Appreciate, Inspire, Connect
Key Themes: Celebrate, Appreciate, Inspire, Connect
The four themes of AHPs Day continue to be:
Celebrating who we are as allied health professionals, the people we work with and the impact we can make every day. Why not have a virtual get together to share and celebrate all your successes - you choose how! #celebrate
Appreciating our skills and impact on care and support in our local communities is important. Do you have local stories to share? Maybe you will be hosting AHP appreciation awards? We know relationships and people are at the heart of everything we do, why not use the day to day to just say thank you, reflect on how we look after our own health and wellbeing and the people we work with. #appreciate
Inspiring our future workforce and ensuring we can continue to grow an AHP workforce fit for the future is everyone's responsibility. Why not use this theme to support people looking into a career as an AHP, a career of choice. You could share how you are inspiring our future workforce or maybe how you are offering new and innovative models of practice placements #inspire
Connecting with others. What relationships and conversations do you need to be engaging in to plug AHPs into workforce transformation and pathway redesign in your system? How are you connecting research with clinical practice? How are you sharing success and joining the dots on quality improvement and local and national policies? How are you connecting across the system on the shared ambition and aspiration of Scotland’s National Performance Framework? #connect
On the day, remember #AHPsDay is a social movement - there are no must do's, only can do's! Watch our for activity on the @NESnmahp X (Twitter) account (AHP Dementia and AHP Scot Blog).
The important thing is to share it with others using the hashtags #AHPsDay & #AHPsDayScot on social media. Please also include #AHPsScot – who are instrumental in sharing practice and good news stories of AHP endeavours across Scotland. AHPs across health and social care. (wordpress.com)