Nikki Munro

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Nikki Munro

• Chair of the Prosthetics and Orthotics Practice
  Development Network.

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Allied Health Professions Practice Development
Network
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Allied Health Professions

• WTE
• 29.7
• 543.7
• 1536.7
• 73.2
• 2137.5
• 677.6
• 84.7
• 1376.8
• 856.2

• Arts Therapists ( Music/Drama/Art)
• Dieticians
  
• Occupational Therapists
• Orthoptists
  
• Physiotherapists
• Podiatrists
• Prosthetists/Orthotists
• Radiographers ( Diagnostic/Therapeutic)
• Speech and Language Therapists
• Total
• AHP 7,316 Support Staff 1,400

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AHP Clinical Effectiveness Networks

• Background
• Attempts by AHP to engage with clinical
  Governance and Clinical Effectiveness Agenda
• Duplication of effort
• Lack of awareness of work going on around country
• Lack of support/structure/funding for AHP to take
  forward audit and develop evidence based practice

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The AHP Network evolving and dynamic

• The Scottish Allied Health Professions Clinical
  Effectiveness Project (2001)
• The Clinical Effectiveness and Practice
  Development Network for Allied Health Professions
  (2004)
• The Practice Development Network for Allied
  Health Professions (2007)

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Network Aims

• Support practitioners to access and utilise
  evidence
• Facilitate knowledge transfer across
  organisations and professions
• Focus on clinical topic areas and identify
  opportunities to improve practice

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Evidence used to inform decision making
Work In progress
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www.nhshealthquality.org
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Scottish Allied Health Professions Practice
Development Network
Arts Therapies
Topic Specific Groups
Uni-professional network 1. Annual Objectives 2.
3 national meetings 3. Database of initiatives 4.
Rep from each health board 5. Dissemination of
info 6. Contact for expert professional reps 7.
Chairs meeting 3x year
Dietetics
Stroke
Occupational Therapy
Children's Services
Orthoptics
Musculoskeletal
Physiotherapy
Podiatry
Radiography
Prosthetics/Orthotics
Over 200 AHPs on current distribution and contact
list
Speech Language Therapy
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Topic Specific Groups - April 05

• Children
• Musculoskeletal
• Stroke
• Aim to identify the top five clinical
  improvement priorities for AHPs in each topic
  area and make recommendations to NHS QIS about
  future work programme.

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• Children's Services
• Nutritional Support for Children with special
  needs
• Clinical Modalities for Management of muscle tone
• Integrated 24 hr postural management care
  pathways
• Ankle Foot orthoses for children with cerebral
  palsy
• Effective interventions for functional
  improvement in children with coordination
  difficulty
• Stroke
• Aphasia
• Shoulder Pain
• Management of Dysphagia
• Guidance on use of ankle foot orthoses
• Effective interventions for management of gait
  and balance
• Musculoskeletal
• Falls

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Stroke Projects The Road to Recovery
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Value of the network

• National structure and focus for practice
  development
• Culture of sharing, supporting and learning
  across professions and organisations
• Mechanism for engaging with front line clinical
  staff
• Building an evidence base for practice

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Question

• Therapeutic Amputation?