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Interprofessional Education needs to correspond with the necesity of interprofessinal work in health-care and welfare in Japan
by Hideaki E. Takahashi, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor Hideaki Takahashi is President of Niigata University of Health and Welfare.
This article was first published in The Niigata Journal of Health and Welfare Vol. 7 No.1 in 2007. It highlights the importance of ensuring that interprofessional education is congruent with the interprofessional working required to promote health-care and welfare in Japan and other countries. (more..)
Towards Unity for Health: IPE Taskforce: Interprofessional Education and Practice Position Paper
This position paper was accepted at the Network: Yowards Unity for Health Conference in Uganda in 2007 (more..)
A Best Evidence Systematic Review of Interprofessional Education
by Hammick M, Freeth D, Koppel I, Reeves S & Barr H
Evidence to support the proposition that learning together will help practitioners and agencies work better together remains limited. To inform the above proposition we conducted a best evidence systematic review of evaluations of interprofessional education (IPE). This brought together evidence from 21 of the strongest contemporary evaluations of IPE. (more...)
Every Child Matters: Parliamentary Briefing
by Anderson, Barr and Shardlow
(20/03/2007)
A brief review of problems besetting working relationships between professions caring for children and their families leads into a discussion of the role of interprofessional education (IPE) in improving collaborative practice. (more...)
Creating an Interprofessional Workforce Programme - An Update
by Lisa Hughes Programme Director
(28/02/2007)
Creating an Interprofessional Workforce (CIPW) was a 3-year Programme funded by the Department of Health and hosted by the South West Peninsula Strategic Heath Authority (now NHS South West) as strategic lead for mainstreaming interprofessional learning and development across Health and Social Care in England and in partnership with CAIPE, the Centre for the Advancement of Interprofessional Education. (more...)
CHERRI PIE - Final report on using clinical recordings in academic settings
by Rachel Ellaway, Helen Cameron, Michael Ross
(23/08/2006)
The CHERRI Project (Common Healthcare Educational Recordings
Reusability Infrastructure) has delivered its findings, Download a copy
of the full report in PDF format. (more...)
Combined Universities Interprofessional Learning Unit - Final Report
by Dr Francis Gordon: Editor
(23/08/2006)
This report describes the work and findings of a Department of Health funded project - the Combined Universities Interprofessional Learning Unit (CUILU) - that aimed to implement and evaluate educational strategies that promote capabilities for collaborative working among undergraduate students of health and social care. (more...)
A Summary of Interprofessional Education in the Leicester School of Pharmacy, De Montfort University
by Neena Lakhani IPE Co-ordinator
(22/08/2006)
This summarises how the Leicester School of Pharmacy, De Montfort University, has integrated IPE into its teaching strategy. The approach was commended by the RPSGB at a visit in April 2006. (more...)
Practical education of information technology Based on the collaboration within a community
by Yoshimichi Ogawa, Department of Welfare Systems Engineering, Kanagawa Institute of Technology, JAPAN
(01/07/2006)
The Kanagawa Institute of Technology (KAIT) has two faculties: the Faculty of Engineering (5 departments), and the Faculty of Information Technology (3 departments), located in Atsugi city which has a population of around 220,000. KAIT is conducting a collaborative comprehensive programme with community members and different faculties. Its purpose is to promote disabled citizen's quality of life and develop a practical education involving disabled users concerning IT. (more...)
Learning Together in Practice. A Final Report on IPE for Modernised Health & Social Care
by Pauline Pearson, Alison Steven & Claire Dickinson, The Common Learning Programme North East (30/06/2006)
(30/06/2006)
This report presents results from a two year research project (2003-2005), undertaken by the authors. The research has examined the process, mechanisms and outcomes of the Common Learning Programme funded by the Department of Health and based in the North East of England. This, along with programmes at 3 other sites (Southampton, London and Sheffield) was funded to offer an opportunity to examine the issues and possibilities of interprofessional education for pre registration or undergraduate health professionals. (more...)
Healthcare Commission conducts worlds largest workforce survey of NHS
by Siobhan Ni Mhaolrunaigh
(06/10/2005)
Over 350,000 NHS staff in England are being given a chance to say exactly what they think about their working lives.
In what is thought to be the largest workforce survey in the world, hospital porters and district nurses, surgeons and receptionists - staff at every level in every English NHS trust - are being asked for their views. (more...)
A summary of findings from a Systematic Review
by Hugh Barr
(03/09/2005)
reported in Barr, H., Koppel, I., Reeves, S., Hammick, M. and Freeth. D. (2005) Effective Interprofessional Education: Argument, Assumption and Evidence. Oxford: Blackwell
With recommendations based on analysis and arguments developed in that book and its companion volume. (more...)
Local lessons from Latin America
by Professor Geoff Meads, Michiyo Iwami, Research Fellow, Centre for Primary Care, University of Warwick
(30/11/1999)
During their formative phase many NHS Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) have been eager to define themselves as new kinds of organisations. The terms 'network', 'virtual' and learning' organisations have been used frequently by new PCT chief officers and chairs, often under the facilitating influence of their board's particular management consultant. The most common collective self account, and aspiration however, has been that of 'community organisation'. (more...)