Allied Health Professionals (AHP) joined with the AHP Director, Peter McCrossan on Friday the 14 of October to celebrate AHP Day 2022 with University Hospital Monklands colleagues.
Ruth Paterson, AHP practice education lead, said: “AHP Day is celebrated each October and many people use the day to raise awareness of the professions and to create an opportunity to recognise the value that these professions bring to patients and their healthcare journeys.”
The 11 AHP professions in Lanarkshire are Orthoptics, Audiology, Speech and Language Therapy, Dietetics, Orthotics, Podiatry, Radiography, Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Paramedics and Spiritual Care.
The organising team: physiotherapist Sekhar Santapur, speech and language therapist Abbey Poole (both at University Hospital Monklands), podiatry service development lead Nicola Smith and Ruth Paterson, an AHP practice education lead in NHS Lanarkshire.
Ruth added: “John McAleese and the Consumable Cres team kindly created a space to showcase information about the AHP professions and created a ‘selfie frame’ that colleagues and patients could pose in to show their support for the professions.
“Colleagues and patients were also invited to sign the ‘declaration of appreciation’. In total 47 colleagues and patients posed in the selfie frame and an equal number of colleagues and patients signed the declaration.
“Colleagues who posed with the selfie frame to show their appreciation included: health promotion and improvement, assistants, practice development, health care students, porters, consultants and medics, discharge team, patient advocacy, deputy director, home assessment team, union and patients.
“There was even some time for an impromptu song and dance. Video messages of support for AHPs were made on Social Media by Heather Knox, Chief Executive, Eddie Docherty, Executive Nurse Director NHS Lanarkshire and Soumen Segunpta, Director of Health and Social Care, South Lanarkshire, which were shared on the day.”
For a full array of pictures taken on the day and to view the song and dance routine performed see Twitter using the hashtag #AHPsDayScot
