Professional Context

Professional Bodies regulating health and social care programmes in the Faculty of Health Education and Society require Interprofessional Education (IPE) to be embedded in pre-registration education.

The NMC ‘will only approve programmes where the learning culture is ethical, open and honest, is conducive to safe and effective learning that respects the principles of equality and diversity, and where innovation, interprofessional learning and team working are embedded’ (NMC, 2018:5).

The HCPC state that programmes of study ‘must ensure that learners are able to learn with, and from, professionals and learners in other relevant professions’ (HCPC, 2017:35).

SWE state Education and Training Providers should ‘ensure that students are given the opportunity to work with, and learn from, other professions in order to support multidisciplinary working’ (SWE, 2021:11).

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