I’m excited to announce that on World Mental Health Day, 10th October, we are launching a national debate for allied health professionals.
The debate, hosted as a three-week online workshop, will help the allied health professions unveil and understand the most impactful AHP workforce innovations that are likely to affect adult mental health.
I have little doubt you’ll have felt the growing recognition that our health services need to think and work differently to improve how our nation prevents adult mental health problems or better serves those mental ill-health.
And I’m sure you’ll have experienced the growing recognition that AHPs are driving lots of innovation in new care models and technologies.
So we at RCOT felt it’s time to ask:
- what are the most innovative existing AHP workforce practices that, if scaled, could have a dramatic impact upon adult mental health today, and
- what are the AHP workforce innovations that should be explored more for their likeliness to have a transformative impact on mental health in the future?
Our colleagues at Health Education England agreed, and have sponsored this national debate. Better still, they’ve also said, if we can let them know what innovative AHP workforce practices should be scaled or explored, they’ll let us know how they will support with resource and guidance.
I’m sure you’ll agree this is an exciting opportunity to shape the future of AHP involvement and innovation in mental health. Please do look out for more on World Mental Health Day – 10th October when we’ll explain more.