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Saturday, 12 June 2004 |
About CAIPE
CAIPE is an independent charity, founded in 1987. It is a membership body with some 300 members who form a network of mutual support and interest. They include organisations and individuals across the UK statutory, voluntary and independent sectors; and a growing international membership. It has expanded from its roots in Primary Care to include individual and organisational members in local government, higher education, professional associations, Royal Colleges, professional regulatory bodies and the voluntary and private sectors. CAIPE is a national and international resource for interprofessional education in both universities and the workplace across health and social care.
CAIPE's claim to special expertise is founded on its members, its publications and its development activities.
CAIPE’s purpose
CAIPE promotes and develops interprofessional education as a way of improving collaboration between practitioners and organisations, engaged in both statutory and non-statutory public services. It supports the integration of health and social care in local communities.
CAIPE’s Focus
CAIPE’s focus is on ways of enabling professions and occupations in the community, education institutions and the workplace to learn and work together, foster mutual respect, overcome barriers to collaboration and engender joint action. CAIPE promotes interprofessional learning which actively involves service users and local communities as essential partners. Closely associated with the work which has established the evidence base for interprofessional education through systematic review, CAIPE is concerned to ensure the quality of interprofessional education and disseminates findings from relevant research and best practice.
CAIPE offers: Information about interprofessional learning, including examples of good practice
Opportunities to exchange experiences
A programme of conferences, workshops and seminars
Access to relevant research
Responses to policy documents on behalf of its members and representation nationally and internationally
An informative and regularly updated website.
CAIPE undertakes: Facilitation of work based initiatives designed to improve collaboration and bring about change in, for example Acute, Primary Care and Care Trusts, education institutions and social care organizations and with service users and carers.
Consultancies for government, health and social care agencies, higher education, local public services and the independent sector.
Interprofessional Learning Workshops to prepare managers, practitioners, teachers, trainers and service users to facilitate interprofessional learning in the workplace and in academic settings.
The evaluation of interprofessional education and practice.
Applied research and publications.
Some recent and current work includes: Research for the Department of Health into the preparation of Social Work Degree students for collaborative practice between professions and agencies.
Work on developing a European web portal to promote, disseminate and develop IPE as a partner in the European Interprofessional Education Network (EIPEN).
Work at Saitama Prefectural University, Japan, to support staff and service colleagues to establish, develop and maintain a thriving centre for interprofessional education.
Regular 2 day CAIPE Interprofessional Learning Workshops to improve skills in facilitating interprofessional learning for health and care educators, practitioners and managers from acute and primary care, Skills for Care and higher education.
Publication of a new book series on Interprofessional Collaboration with Blackwell Sciences; and of an evaluation of recent research
Working in partnership with the Department of Health ‘Creating an Interprofessional Workforce’ programme.
Services to Members Access to the CAIPE Website with interactive facilities and key links
A bi-annual CAIPE Bulletin on recent developments in collaborative practice and education
Response to enquiries for advice and information
A seminar programme
Access to research evidence on the content, methods and effectiveness of interprofessional learning and collaboration
CAIPE's Relationship with Other Organisations:
Journal of Interprofessional Care:
A feature of the last three years has been a rise in international membership. CAIPE has a close, historic relationship with the international Journal of Interprofessional Care. Through this link, CAIPE aims to ensure that its members are kept up to date with relevant research and publication. Individual members based in the UK only, benefit from substantially reduced subscriptions to the Journal.
‘Creating an Interprofessional Workforce’ (CIPW):
CAIPE has been closely involved with this 3 year programme since its inception and continues to work in partnership with CIPW as the focus of its work moves towards consideration of a national framework to take forward IPE after the end of the project in April 2007. |
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