Thank you for attending the AAPE Conference on the 23rd June

Dear All

Thank you for attending the AAPE Conference on the 23rd June. We hope that you enjoyed and that the day offered you a lot of food for thought! It certainly did us as a committee.

We will post the presentations to YouTube and will provide you with a link on the AAPE website as soon as we can; please do bear with us, as we are a voluntary committee, and are therefore dependant on spare time to complete the work. We are working on it, and in the meantime, here is the link to last years’ presentations:

2022 Conference Presentations

We look forward to sharing the 2023 conference presentations with you, and thank you for your continued support of AAPE.

AAPE CONFERENCE SAVE THE DATE!

AAPE UK Annual Conference and AGM
Friday 23rd JUNE 2023

THE EVOLVING ROLE OF EDUCATION IN ADVANCING PRACTICE

Date: Friday 23rd JUNE 2023
Time: 9 – 4.30pm
Venue: On-Line Conference

Confirmed Speakers:
Dr. Bev Harden, HEE
Dr. Deborah Harding, Associate Professor, Centre for Allied
Health, St George’s University of London
Lillian Maas, University of Rotterdam

The conference will provide a forum for critical debate around education,
supervision and regulation of advanced practice. The day will finish with the AAPE
UK Annual General Meeting.

Free registration : http://aape.eventbrite.com

We are keen to review (electronic) posters on the theme of Education,
Supervision and Regulation of Advanced Practice. Please do record your
presentation of your poster – please see Colette Henderson for details:
c.m.j.henderson@dundee.ac.uk

Call for posters: Closing date is Monday 22 nd May 2022.

Download Conference Programme

Abstract Submission Form

Presenter Biographies

INVITE TO JOIN WEBINAR 3 IN A SERIES OF 3 WEBINARS ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF CREDENTIALS PROVIDED BY HEE [HOSTED BY AAPE UK]

from Sally Gosling (NHS HEE Subject Matter Expert Credentials) and Katrina Maclaine (AAPE UK Committee Member and Academic Consultant to HEE Implementation of Credentials)

Health Education England’s Centre for Advancing Practice is actively working to promote the delivery of Centre-endorsed credential specifications. The Centre’s approach is continuing to build on stakeholder engagement activity in 2022 that involved higher education institutions (including via AAPE UK). A key focus within this is on supporting the integration of credentials’ delivery within HEIs’ existing advanced practice education provision. To build on this, a series of three webinars is being provided by the Centre and hosted by AAPE UK. The series is designed to provide AAPE members with the opportunities to do the following:

  • Receive and discuss updates on the Centre’s approach to credentials and credential implementation.
  • Consider potential ways of integrating Centre-endorsed credential specifications within advanced practice education provision.
  • Engage in open discussion on enablers and barriers to credential delivery, including to inform the ongoing development of the Centre’s approach.

Webinar 1 was held on Friday 3rd March to provide an initial overview of the intended approach and explore how HEIs can integrate credential delivery within their advanced practice MSc programmes and/or provide a credential as a stand-alone entity specifically for practitioners who have either already gained their MSc or successfully completed the Centre’s ePortfolio (supported) route. The session included time for questions and discussion and identified suggestions for the focus of Webinar 2.  A briefing paper on this topic and the slide deck from webinar 1 are attached for your information. You can also view a presentation with background information on this subject in the first half of the following recording.  If this generates any questions please bring these up at the webinars:  (21) Advanced Practice series: Credential Implementation & Programme Accreditation/Re-Accreditation – YouTube

Webinar 2 was held on Friday 21st April. The slide deck for this session is attached. The recording for the session will be provided via the AAPE UK Membership site in due course.

It started with consideration of 3 hypothetical scenarios that illustrated how an HEI might provide one or more credentials. This prompted attendees to share their ideas and plans which prompted a wider discussion around different approaches. The second part focused on the intention behind draft materials that are being developed to support HEI update of credential delivery.

Webinar 3 will be held on Friday 5th May 11am – 1pm.  To join the session please use this link

Join Session

This session will identify common features of credentials to enable discussion regarding how these aspects could be addressed in HEI delivery. This will lead into a discussion using the draft Centre standards for approving HEIs’ delivery plans as a framework for debating how an HEI might demonstrate that they meet the requirements for delivering a credential specification, including how an HEI might deliver and monitor the indicative learning volume of hours, work-based learning and supervision, and assessment strategy.  Current plans for the process for HEI approval for delivery of a credential and for commissioning providers will be outlined.  The webinar will close with consideration of what on-going support the HEI community might want to optimise credential implementation in the short and longer term. 

INVITATION TO JOIN WEBINAR 2 THIS FRIDAY 21st APRIL 11am – 1pm IN A SERIES OF 3 WEBINARS ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF CREDENTIALS

INVITATION TO JOIN WEBINAR 2 THIS FRIDAY 21st APRIL 11am – 1pm IN A SERIES OF 3 WEBINARS ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF CREDENTIALS

Provided by Sally Gosling (HEE Subject Matter Expert Credentials) and Katrina Maclaine (AAPE UK Committee Member and Academic Consultant to HEE Implementation of Credentials)

Health Education England’s Centre for Advancing Practice is actively working to promote the delivery of Centre-endorsed credential specifications. The Centre’s approach is continuing to build on stakeholder engagement activity in 2022 that involved higher education institutions (including via AAPE UK). A key focus within this is on supporting the integration of credentials’ delivery within HEIs’ existing advanced practice education provision. To build on this, a series of three webinars is being provided by the Centre and hosted by AAPE UK. The series is designed to provide AAPE members with the opportunities to do the following:

  • Receive and discuss updates on the Centre’s approach to credentials and credential implementation.
  • Consider potential ways of integrating Centre-endorsed credential specifications within advanced practice education provision.
  • Engage in open discussion on enablers and barriers to credential delivery, including to inform the ongoing development of the Centre’s approach.

Webinar 1 was held on Friday 3rd March to provide an initial overview of the intended approach and explore how HEIs can integrate credential delivery within their advanced practice MSc programmes and/or provide a credential as a stand-alone entity specifically for practitioners who have either already gained their MSc or successfully completed the Centre’s ePortfolio (supported) route. The session included time for questions and discussion and identified suggestions for the focus of Webinar 2.  A briefing paper on this topic and the slide deck from webinar 1 are attached for your information. You can also view a presentation with background information on this subject in the first half of the following recording.  If this generates any questions please bring these up at the webinars:  (21) Advanced Practice series: Credential Implementation & Programme Accreditation/Re-Accreditation – YouTube

Webinar 2 will be on Friday 21st April 11am – 1pm.   Please join us using this link  Click here to join the meeting

  • The session will start with consideration of hypothetical scenarios to illustrate how an HEI might provide one or more credentials. The intention is for these to be a catalyst for discussion with attendees.
  • The second part will focus on gaining feedback on draft materials that are being developed to support HEI update of credential delivery.  Three draft documents are attached for you to review before the webinar and to feed your comments into the webinar discussion.  They are as follows:
  • Draft standards for approving HEIs’ delivery plans
  • A draft template for supporting teams’ planning re. credential delivery.
  • An outline for planned guidance on building a business case for credential delivery.

Please note the draft status of these documents. They are being shared for comment, ahead of the webinar. They are not yet ready to be used formally. They should therefore not be shared beyond your teams.

Webinar 3 will be held on Friday 5th May 11am – 1pm.  The agenda for this session will be determined by key topics arising during webinar 2 that warrant further attention.  The meeting link will be sent out following Webinar 2.

HEE webinars hosted by AAPEUK

Health Education England’s Centre for Advancing Practice is actively working to promote the delivery of Centre-endorsed credential specifications. The Centre’s approach is continuing to build on stakeholder engagement activity in 2022 that involved higher education institutions (including via AAPE UK). A key focus within this is on supporting the integration of credentials’ delivery within HEIs’ existing advanced practice education provision.

A recent Council of Deans for Health webinar provided key information on the planned approach to credential implementation, the subject areas in which credential specifications have been produced/are in development, and how HEIs can seek Centre approval to deliver individual credentials.

To support the HEI community further, AAPE UK has invited HEE to provide a series of three interactive webinars. The dates for the sessions are as follows:

FRIDAY 21st APRIL* 11am – 1pm Click here to join the meeting

FRIDAY 5th MAY* 11am – 1pm Click here to join the meeting

* these are the planned dates but may be subject to change in the event of strike action”

Advanced Practice week. Save the date!

Dates confirmed as 12th -18th Nov.

A number of events across specialities and disciplines will be occurring during this week so be sure to get involved!”

Evaluation of the National Pre-MSc Advanced Practice Programme Workbook – On-Line Evaluation Open!

Please visit – https://hud.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_dhttM3ZU5Vu5gRE

We are interested in evaluating the National Advanced Practice Pre-Course Workbook that has been developed by the Association of Advanced Practice Educators UK (AAPE UK). You will have gained access to this workbook as part of the Masters Advanced Practice programme that you are undertaking.  

To evaluate the workbook,  we would like to invite you to participate by asking you to complete a short questionnaire, which will only take approximately 15 minutes of your time, using the links provided.

We will use the evaluation to develop the workbook for future students’ use and will publish any results to benefit the advanced practice community.

Thank you 

Melanie Rogers, Colette Henderson, Anna Jones, Jonathan Thomas, Angie Banks, Emma Fawcett,  Samantha McDonnell and Victoria Stanley

Thankyou!

Dear conference participant,

Thank you for attending and participating in the AAPEUK Conference on Friday 24th June 2022. We were very grateful for your support, and the feedback has been excellent. We hope you all enjoyed the day?

There were approximately 585 delegates present from across the UK and globe across the day, and the message around Advanced Practice and the forgotten pillars has been widely shared – thank you!

Thank you for your time and we sincerely look forward to next year!

Poster Launch

The posters presented to the AAPE UK conference will be available online from the 20th June 2022, 4 days prior to the conference.

You can view the posters online by clicking on the link below:

View Posters

Poster submission AAPE Conference 2022

Please note that the closing date for poster submissions is the 10th June 2022. Please submit your abstract applications to c.m.j.henderson@dundee.ac.uk . The abstract application forms are available here