What are the allied health professions?
The allied health professions is the collective term for a grouping of specialist roles within the healthcare sector. Allied health professionals (AHPs) work with cutting-edge therapies designed specifically for their patients’ needs, enabling them to provide the best medical treatment and care possible. It’s about being part of a team, and there are a variety of positions available both as a practitioner and in supporting roles. • Arts therapies: use the arts to help people with emotional and development needs. • Chiropody/podiatry: keep feet pain free and treat abnormalities of the foot and lower limb. • Dietetics: increase awareness of the importance of diet to health and well-being. • Orthoptics: diagnose and treat people with eye difficulties. • Occupational therapy: help people come to terms with and overcome illness, injury and disability in their daily lives. • Operating department practice: work as part of a surgical team monitoring and reassuring patients during their stay in
