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Suggest a news itemLiberating the NHS: Developing the Healthcare Workforce - From Design to Delivery
Posted: 25th January 2012
The policy framework for a new approach to workforce planning and the education and training of the health workforce was published on 10th January. It puts employers and professionals in the driving seat and gives them the national support they need to identify and anticipate the key workforce challenges,...
News from Ireland: Prestigious award for Kinsale Primary Care Team Ireland
Posted: 12th January 2012
MEMBERS of the Kinsale Primary Care Team (PCT) are the proud winners of the Irish Medical Times Irish Healthcare award for inter-professional educational meetings. Last year Dr Tony Foley wrote to CAIPE describing the work of the thriving multidisciplinary Primary Care Team (PCT) in Kinsale, County Cork. Weekly meetings...
CAIPE's Response to the General Medical Council's Consultation On Continuing Professional Development. December 2011
Posted: 9th January 2012
CAIPE has responded to the GMC's consultation on continuing professional development. The response point's out that the consultation document makes little reference to the importance of interprofessional education and how this can inform effective interprofessional working. Click here for the full response.
Report of the Association of Simulation Practice in Healthcare (ASPiH) Conference November 2011
Posted: 22nd December 2011
Last month Clair Merriman and Liz Westcottt from Oxford Brookes University attended the ASPiH conference in Cardiff on behalf of CAIPE. The conference theme was The Quality and Impact of Simulated Practice in Healthcare. Clair and Liz have provided feedback on the event and also some useful tips and...
Could you be a TIGER champion?
Posted: 21st December 2011
The TIGER (Transforming Interprofessional Groups through Educational Resources) project developed a Repository to provide open educational resources for interprofessional education. Now that the Repository is live the Project team is keen to ensure that health care staff in practice are made aware of the Repository. Materials are accessed and...
Transforming Interprofessional Groups through Educational Resources The TIGER project
Posted: 21st December 2011
The TIGER (Transforming Interprofessional Groups through Educational Resources) Repository is now live. Resources are being regularly released so practitioners have access to high quality IPE materials to choose from, whether they are looking for a whole course to adapt and use or a single handout or image. http://tiger.library.dmu.ac.uk For...