IPE Links
STEP UK - the Society for Trauma, Emergency Medicine / Nursing and Pre-Hospital Care
This organisation aims:
To increase medical, nursing and paramedic student access to the principles of trauma, emergency medicine/nursing and pre-hospital care
To increase interprofessional activities for students to maximise their learning potential
To develop links with leading organisations and specialists
To increase opportunities for potential healthcare educationalists to support education at a university and community level
Institute for Healthcare Improvement
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) is an independent not-for-profit organization helping to lead the improvement of health care throughout the world. Founded in 1991 and based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, IHI works to accelerate improvement by building the will for change, cultivating promising concepts for improving patient care, and helping health care systems put those ideas into action.The site will provide information about the ongoing Health and Social Care Interprofessional Education project across the two universities in Aberdeen.
Canadian Interprofessional Health Collaborative
(CIHC) is is a pan-Canadian collaborative of partners advancing the evidence base related to Interprofessional Education for Collaborative Patient-Centred Practice (IECPCP) toward improved programs that educate health professionals, improved health services, and improved health for Canadians.Centre for Health Informatics and Multiprofessional Education
(CHIME) has been established to develop and integrate initiatives in informatics, education and health services research.
Centre for Inter-Professional e-Learning
HEFCE funded Centre of Excellence in Teaching and Learning. The Centre for Inter-Professional e-Learning is a collaboration between Coventry and Sheffield Hallam Universities.
Centre for Interprofessional Practice
Based at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, the Centre was formed in response to UK health and social care policy emphasising the importance of interprofessional/ inter-agency working and education in delivering first class patient care. The Centre therefore has created a combined approach to educating both pre-registration and post-registration healthcare professionals by offering an Interprofessional Learning (IPL) programme with two branches of activity: a pre-registration IPL programme offered to all undergraduate healthcare students in the first, second and third years of their professional training, and a post-registration IPL programme offered to active interprofessional/ inter-agency teams in health and social care.
The Cochrane Library is an on-line publication designed to supply high quality evidence to inform people providing and receiving care, and those responsible for research, teaching, funding and administration at all levels.
College of Health Disciplines
University of British Columbia Developing and maintaining effective collaboration, interdisciplinary and interprofessional understanding, and shared communication between health and human service programs and other units of the University.
Combined Universities Interprofessional Learning Unit
This site is a repository of resources and outcomes generated by The Combined Universities Interprofessional Learning Unit (CUILU), a two year project which completed in May 2005. CUILU was a joint initiative between The University of Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam University , and was the result of a successful bid to the Department of Health to become one of four national leading edge pilot sites for interprofessional learning. The South Yorkshire Workforce Development Confederation provided additional funding to the unit. The aim of the unit was to act as a 'hub and spoke' project to facilitate interprofessional learning through close collaboration with local educational and professional agencies.
Community-Campus Partnerships for Health
(CCPH) is a nonprofit organization that fosters health-promoting partnerships between communities and higher educational institutions.
The European Interprofessional Education Network partly funded by the EU Life Long Learning Programme. Coordinated by the Health Sciences and Practice Subject Centre of the Higher Education Academy
Ethics in interprofessional education and practice
Are you interested in ethics in interprofessional education and practice, then follow this link to see some details from a meeting about this.
Health Sciences and Practice Subject Centre
Focuses on enhancing the student learning experience in higher education (both in academic classroom and practice settings) for the health professions across the UK. One of the 24 Subject Centres of the Higher Education Academy.
Established to promote high quality learning and teaching in all subject disciplines in higher education in order to provide students with high levels of skills and employability and to facilitate life long learning. Enhancing the student learning experience in all four countries of the UK. List of Subject Centres.
Institute of Healthcare Management
A leading provider of education, training courses, seminars and events for health care managers. The Institute also publishes on a variety of healthcare policy issues.
Learning and Teaching for Interprofessional Practice, Australia (L-TIPP, Aus)
The aim of this project is:
“to significantly increase the capacity of the Australian higher education sector to graduate health professionals who have acquired well developed interprofessional learning (IPL) and interprofessional practice (IPP) capabilities.”
The project is co-managed by the University of Sydney and the University of Technology Sydney and funded by the Carrick Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education
Making Practice Based Learning Work
A web site which links to resources and learning materials for the preparation of the practice educator working in a multiprofessional context
At a practice level, professionals from different disciplines need to work together and to learn from those who have direct experience of mental health problems. In parallel, the different discipline and subject bases within higher education have much to gain from an interchange of ideas about learning and teaching and from sharing good practice.
Are you interested in patient and public involvement in health and social care? Use this link to find out about the NHS Centre for Involvement.
NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination
Promotes the use of research-based knowledge in health care. It offers rigorous and systematic reviews on selected topics, a database of good quality reviews, a dissemination service and an information service to encourage evidence-based practice in the National Health Service.
SCIE - Interprofessional and interagency collaboration
This resource invites you to explore different dimensions of interprofessional and inter-agency collaboration (IPIAC) and to hear, early on, from those who use care services and carers speaking about their experiences of effective and ineffective collaboration.
The Centre of Excellence in Interdisciplinary Mental Health
The overall strategy of The Centre of Excellence in Interdisciplinary Mental Health (CEIMH) is to promote the delivery of good interdisciplinary mental health services.
Latest news and information about the Department of Health and its work. Access to the wide range of publications, policy and guidance.
Focusing to improving the health of Londoners by making change happen in health and social care. The Funds also works nationally and internationally and gives grants to individuals and organisations. The Kings Fund carry out research and development work to bring about better health policies and services.
The National Institute for Health Research
View the updated 'Best Research for Best Health' >>strategy implementation plans, find out more about the NIHR work streams and "arms length" programmes, and read the latest news about the Institute.
The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education(QAA) is an independent UK body funded by educational establishment subscriptions and funding council contracts. Assesses quality and standards of teaching and learning.
Western University of Health Sciences is taking a leadership role in interprofessional education IPE in the United States. The first phase of our IPE curriculum (required for students of our 9 health professional programs). We have just launched an IPE website which includes a Bulletin Board for communication between institutions involved in IPE work
(WHO) directs, promotes and coordinates activity on international health work that strives to bring the highest level of health to all peoples. Its work also includes: promoting co-operation between health services; assisting governments in strengthening health services; encouraging improved standards of teaching and training in the health professions.
Interprofessional Learning across the Public Sector