Multidisciplinary Team Working toolkit
Completion requirements
Expanding practice teams brings the opportunity to embed new skills into primary care, widens the range of services offered by general practice and works towards resolving some of the challenges currently faced in primary care.
Glossary of terms
- Accreditation: Formal recognition that a health care organisation or provider is fit to carry out specific activities or processes in a reliable way.
- Advanced nurse practitioner (ANP)
- Agenda for Change: System used by the NHS to structure staff pay, whereby individual posts are allocated to bands that correspond to pay scales.
- Calderdale Framework: A systematic method for reviewing staff skill mix, developing new roles and identifying new ways of working in order to ensure safe, effective care.
- Care Certificate: A set of standards that health and social care workers agree to adhere to in their daily working life
- Care Quality Commission (CQC): Independent regulatory body that monitors and inspects health and social care services in England to ensure they are safe and of sufficient quality.
- Commissioning for Quality and Innovation (CQUIN): Framework that encourages care providers in England to achieve goals specific to their local area by linking the amount of total funding they receive to their ability to achieve those goals.
- General Medical Council: The regulator of the medical profession, responsible for setting standards in the practice of medicine, overseeing medical training and providing professional protection for doctors.
- Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC): Independent, UK-wide regulatory body responsible for setting and maintaining standards of professional training, performance and conduct of health care professions.
- Health Education England (HEE): Department of Health-sponsored public organisation that exists to educate, train and develop the workforce in the health sector.
- Indemnity: Security or protection against a loss or other financial burden (e.g. professional liability).
- National Qualifications Framework (NQF): A system that sets out the level at which any professional qualification in the UK can be recognised. This system has now been replaced by the Qualifications and Credit Framework (see entry on this below).
- Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC): Independent body that sets standards of education, training, conduct and performance for the nursing and midwifery professions in the UK.
- Qualifications and Credit Framework (QCF): System for education qualification in England, Northern Ireland and Wales that sets out the level at which any professional qualification in the UK can be recognised.
- Registration: Process that all health professionals must undergo in order to obtain acknowledgement that they are fit to practice in a given discipline.
- Regulation: Official oversight of the safety and quality of health care professionals’ work by statutory bodies.