Focus groups for allied health professionals and professions allied to technical services in the NHS - marketing opportunities, lessons learnt and recommendations

Extended Roles for Allied Health Professionals in the NHS

College of Allied Health Professions

2 The Role of Computed Tomography in Trans-catheter Aortic Valve Replacement Tammy Jones, Stephanie Lough. Faculty: Division of Radiation Science Technology Education, College of Allied Health Professions, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE According to the American Heart Association, aortic stenosis, which is the narrowing of the aortic valve opening, remains one of the most comm...

Mergers in the NHS: lessons learnt and recommendations

Effects of visitation among allied health professionals.

OBJECTIVE Visitation is a method for external peer review. The goal is to improve the quality of patient care by giving feedback on quality of competence and performance of a professional during a practice visit. Feedback is offered as recommendations for improvement. This study aims to evaluate the effects of visitation and to determine which factors are related to the effectiveness of visitat...

Substitution across professions within the home care sector: an investigation of nursing and allied health services.

OBJECTIVE The service type offered by a home care agency contracted by the Queensland government is not based on the qualifications of the worker providing the service, but the service itself. This allows agencies to substitute certain levels and categories of labour in order to provide a service to meet their contract obligations. This study investigated evidence of labour substitution between...