Creating an Interprofessional Workforce Framework
The Framework is the outcome of the Creating an Interprofessional Workforce Programme (CIPW), a three-year programme funded by the Department of Health and hosted by South West Peninsula Strategic Health Authority. The CIPW Framework was produced in partnership with the UK Centre for the Advancement of Interprofessional Education (CAIPE).
The CIPW Framework is aimed at those planning, delivering and evaluating interprofessional education, and will be of particular use to those commissioning and developing programmes of interprofessional education as well as employers, professional bodies and the wider health, social care and children’s services communities. It is a tool to enable the spreading of good practice in interprofessional education to support effective interprofessional collaboration and improve the quality of care. It also offers guidance to those involved in interprofessional education wishing to develop and enhance their practice.
The CIPW Framework builds on the consultations carried out as part of the Creating an Interprofessional Workforce Programme. It has been informed by evidence from research, systematic review, Government policy and experiences of interprofessional education. It represents the culmination of three years work carried out across the health, social care and children’s services sectors and reflects the views of its wide range of participants.
The CIPW Framework makes 12 recommendations to stakeholders in health, social care and children’s services that, when effectively implemented, will help to develop and sustain a collaborative culture and supportive infrastructure for the training and development of an interprofessional workforce.
To access the recommendations within the CIPW Framework document and the various supplementary documents, please click the links below.
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Creating an Interprofessional Workforce: An Education and Training Framework for Health and Social Care in England. Click here
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Executive Summary: Creating an Inteprofessional Workforce: An Education and Training Framework for Health and Social Care in England. Click here
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Supplement 1: Health and Social Care Policy and the Interprofessional Agenda - a review of interprofessional education (IPE) in relation to WHO, EU and UK health and social care policy. Click here
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Supplement 2: Interprofessional Education in the UK: Some Historical Perspectives - a brief history of IPE in UK. Click here
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Supplement 3: Walk the Talk - A report on the sustainability of IPE in higher education. Click here
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Report of the Forging Ahead CIPW Forums. Click here
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Key Messages from the Consultation Event, 7th April 2005. Click here
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The Report of the CIPW Working Groups. Click here
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All Rise at the University of Derby. Click here
Requests for paper copies of the Executive Summary should be addressed to:
Lisa Hughes
Allied Health Professions Officer
Professional Leadership Team
Department of Health
452c Skipton House
80 London Road
London
SE1 6LH
020 7972 5857
lisa.hughes [at] dh.gsi.gov.uk