RCOT and HEE Projects

RCOT and NHS England (formerly Health Education England) joined forces to deliver a year-long Allied Health Professionals (AHP) Workforce Reform project, which set out to identify ways to increase the number of occupational therapists working in health and social care. The learning and insights are for all four nations.

The pre-pandemic NHS People Plan workforce planning illustrated that a minimum of 27,000 additional AHPs will be needed by 2024 to meet future AHP workforce demand. AHPs are the third largest clinical workforce in the NHS, and one of the most cost-effective workforces to train. AHPs graduate as regulated, clinically autonomous practitioners with a highly developed scope of practice.

The joint project, which had separate workstreams which are now available and gives access to a variety of different resources such as case studies, blogs, webinars, podcasts, vodcasts, handbooks and other valuable assets for occupational therapists across the UK to utilise.