Allied Health Professions Federation Scotland (AHPFS)

AHPFS represents 12 of the Allied Health Professions in Scotland. Collectively AHPs are the third biggest workforce in the NHS and with that we bring breadth, passion, knowledge, and the skills to drive and support change.

We are arts therapists, dramatherapists and music therapists, orthoptics, dieticians, podiatrists, physiotherapists, speech and language therapists, orthotists and prosthetists, occupational therapists, paramedics, and radiographers. We work with people of all ages; we diagnose; we prevent, we treat and we help people live their best lives.

AHPs are leaders and advocates for change. Utilising AHPs to our maximum effect impacts and delivers true transformational change across health, social care, public health, education, the third sector and beyond.  We bring different solutions to incredibly trickly problems across the sectors and across the life journey.

Membership:

Chair - Hilary Munro, Professional Head of Speech & Language Therapy (NHS Fife)

Vice Chair - Sharon Weiner-Ogilvie, Podiatry Head of Service (NHS Fife) - Royal College of Podiatry

Vice Chair - Glenn Carter, Head of RCSLT Scotland Office - The Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists

National Care Service

The National Care Service Bill (Stage 2) went out for consultation in July 2024. AHPFS has developed a position paper to highlight how crucial AHPs will be to delivering the NCS and what our key asks are at this stage of the bill. 

A link to the document is here: AHPFS NCS Position Paper 2024_Final.pdf

AHPFS Compendium 2023