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Return to Practice Allied Health Professions (AHPs)

If you are an Allied Health Professional (AHP) and would like to return to the NHS and the HCPC register, we are able to offer support and information to help you on your return to practice journey.

If your profession is within Therapies; dietetics, occupational therapy, orthotics, prosthetics, physiotherapy and speech and language therapy, please contact Laura Andrews, Therapies Workforce Lead.

If your profession is within Radiography, please contact Lynda Linbourne (Bedford) or Sally Hacking (L&D).

For further information and resources, please visit the Health Education England website.

Contacting patients for appointments and surgery

We have begun sending text messages and letters out to patients on our waiting lists.

Please be reassured that these messages are legitimate. It is important that you respond to these messages as quickly as possible after receiving them. If you need to get in contact with us, please use either the email address or telephone number provided on your original letter.

You may receive a message:

To ask if you still require treatment and would like to remain on our waiting list.

or,

You have been waiting over 40 weeks for an appointment or procedure and would like to request to move to another hospital, who may be able to see you sooner.