ABSTRACT
The Tool has been constructed using evidence-based information from our combined research spanning two decades, which has provided a valuable and rich source of data on Allied Health Professions (AHP) managers’ roles, responsibilities and duties, together with the views of postholders regarding the management and organisational structures in which they work. On completion of the scoring the results are analysed, enabling AHP managers to determine strengths and weaknesses of the current management and organisational arrangements, how structure impacts on this and importantly, how the existing management arrangements facilitate or impede the AHP services in providing high-quality, responsive patient care. The assessment Tool incorporates a ‘big picture’ overview, it is evidence based, informed by research and detailed studies of the available literature and examination of a wide range of models — some in place, and some theoretical.
