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The NHS England Five Year Forward View and Public Health England’s From Evidence into Action highlight the need to focus on a preventative approach to improve population health and wellbeing and to ensure health and social care costs remain affordable.
PHE recognised the need to engage a wider public health workforce to achieve these desired improvements in health and wellbeing and reductions in health inequalities. The allied health professions (AHPs), with a workforce of over 170,000 in the UK, have the potential make a significant contribution to this.
In April 2014, the professional bodies of the twelve allied health professions in the…