1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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.

6. 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…

7. 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?

8. 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