The Allied Health Contribution The AHP National Commissioning Network Early achievements The paper, The Healthcare Professionals Commissioning Network – access to a wealth of expertise Sharing critical reflections/assumptions upon my experience of coordinating the AHP paper to be stronger together

The AHP National Commissioning Network All AHP clinicians involved in commissioning 12 diverse professions, all with sub-specialties A sub-group of the HCPCN An online network as part of NHS networks Face to face meetings

Early achievements Contribution to listening exercise in collaboration with nurses through the Nursing and Allied Health Professional Contribution to Commissioning Working Group Mapping and merging networks in parallel with work lead by the Professional Leadership Team to: engage SHA AHP leads develop a database of key clinical AHP experts

Document The specific contribution of Allied Health Examples with evidence All in the context of the broader offer from the umbrella network, aligned to the 10 high impact actions of the HCPCN

4 key messages aligned to the HCPCN 10 high impact actions The HCPCN provides one route to a breadth of clinical advice which will save time and money by informing innovative and effective commissioning It is a means of liberating and harnessing clinical intelligence at every level to increase the effectiveness of commissioning including joint strategic needs assessment It provides access to a broad range of healthcare professionals with a wide span of expertise that may not sit within commissioning structures and is frequently embedded within operational service delivery. Membership of the network is open, providing one umbrella under which will be captured accounts of service innovation and improvement as well as access to specialist advice.

Critical reflection What will harness the energy and focus the efforts of the membership of the AHP subgroup (and the umbrella network the HCPCN)? What do the users of our networks need? What would make someone choose to use the HCPCN? When we are successfully delivering our 10 high impact actions we will be…

Content Ensuring that users find what they value on their first hit Ensuring evidence of outcomes, efficiencies and savings Architecture and leadership Harnessing energy and focussing effort Ease of finding what you want Local/Regional/National Care pathway and profession Being clear about what’s front stage and what’s backstage?

Communications The need to access a wide clinical community in order to get creative solutions and capture evidence. Putting commissioners and providers in touch and building relationships– locally, regionally, nationally, around care pathways, across professions, within professions, across sectors (AQP & social enterprises). AHPs are difficult and to access, increasingly so as strategic leadership falls away and there is moving system architecture, Bringing together and making accessible the ‘wealth of expertise’ Showing people the door – the ‘open door’ – and giving them a reason to walk through it