Exploring the potential of Allied Health Professionals in reducing health inequities
By Heather McFarlane, 2024
Fellow’s Profile
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Realising the AHP potential in reducing health inequalities (N. Ireland)
Realising the potential of Allied Health Professionals in reducing health inequalities.
2023
Northern Ireland
I am a consultant allied health professional working in the Public Health Agency, Northern Ireland. I have worked since 1988 in the NHS, for many of those years directly involved with Northern Ireland's communities facing challenges due to legacy conflict and deprivation. I have been inspired by significant changes made throughout these years but I believe we can still do more as a country to address our widening health inequalities.
I am passionate about the potential of allied health professionals to reduce this gap and by new ways of working to improve health and wellbeing in our communities. I want to meet those health professionals who have brought about change that has reduced health inequalities in their own country. I want to hear directly from the people who have been impacted by this change. I want to learn from these personal stories, share the learning with leaders, policymakers and communities across Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK, and build international networks to inspire and develop sustainable change that minimises health inequalities here.
'Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane' (attributed to Martin Luther King).
Heather McFarlane (CF 2023) presented her Churchill Fellowship research at the Allied Health Professional Research and Innovation Conference in Northern Ireland.
By Heather McFarlane, 2024
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Heather McFarlane (CF 2023) presented her Churchill Fellowship research at the Allied Health Professional Research and Innovation Conference in Northern Ireland.
By Heather McFarlane, 2024
All Reports are copyright © the author. The moral right of the author has been asserted. The views and opinions expressed by any Fellow are those of the Fellow and not of the Churchill Fellowship or its partners, which have no responsibility or liability for any part of them.