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Sam McConkey shares his experience since joining the BDA’s Northern Ireland Board.

The BDA is developing new guidance for the dietetic support workforce to outline the broad range of clinical roles and responsibilities expected at each level of practice.

Clinical support staff, including dietetic support workers are crucial to the NHS but still feel undervalued and ‘invisible’ 10 years after a government-commissioned review highlighted ways to improve working practices, a new report has found.

The level 3 senior health care support worker apprenticeship programme (for therapies) and level 5 assistant practitioner apprenticeship programme in dietetics are now approved for delivery.

Promoting Effective Medicines Administration Practice (PEMAP) is a new national recommended education programme which aims to support HCSWs involved in medicines administration.

It's AHP Support Workers Awareness Week 2023. We, along with a coalition of 13 other AHP professional bodies, want to further celebrate and recognise our support staff.

This survey, which has been organised by King's College London, seeks to find out about NHS clinical support workers' experience of work, their career aspirations and what might be done to improve the recruitment, management, training and development of this important part of the NHS workforce.

We’ve worked with the NHSE national AHP support workforce programme team, as well as a number of other organisations to develop new apprenticeship programmes.

In December 2022, Health Education England (HEE) presented awards to members of the AHP Support Workforce

We asked Megan Jones, the Dietetic Assistant and Dietetic Support Worker representative on our Board of Directors, to reflect on a “day in the life” of her role as both a Dietetic Assistant and on the BDA Board.

Dietetic assistants and support workers are a vital part of the dietetic team, working alongside RDs to support patients and improve services. We put some questions to three of our members to find out more about their roles and why they considered it as a career.

AHP support workers are a crucial part of the workforce, yet many report feeling invisible. This statement calls for UK-wide career development and progression frameworks for AHP support workers.