Tribal has been appointed by the University of East London (UEL) to develop and oversee a flagship project to manage a placements shared service for Allied Health Profession (AHP) students from ten universities (HEIs) across London and the South-East. The project was commissioned by NHS London.
Existing approaches to managing placements across the different AHPs within the HEI's were ad-hoc and adapted over many years and required considerable administrative input from academic staff. Furthermore, placement providers were required to respond repeatedly to requests from multiple universities in varying formats. A new solution was needed to address inefficiencies and promote a networked system between the different AHPs and HEI's.
The solution
The project will see the development of a database to maintain details of placement providers and students seeking placements. The database will include placement options for students across seven Allied Health disciplines, including physiotherapy, occupational therapy and podiatry. A corresponding software application will be developed to enable intelligent matching suggestions of students to placements across hospitals, GP practices and community practices. Tribal will work with representatives from each discipline to ensure that all discipline-specific requirements, as well as the generic system capabilities, are captured.
Following the system's go live in early 2011, Tribal will provide an administration service to support practice placement organisation for students, working in partnership with the placement providers and the university co-ordinators.
The solution is designed to be completely extensible so that additional courses can or HEIs can be added to the consortium.
Existing approaches to managing placements across the different AHPs within the HEI's were ad-hoc and adapted over many years and required considerable administrative input from academic staff. Furthermore, placement providers were required to respond repeatedly to requests from multiple universities in varying formats. A new solution was needed to address inefficiencies and promote a networked system between the different AHPs and HEI's.
The solution
The project will see the development of a database to maintain details of placement providers and students seeking placements. The database will include placement options for students across seven Allied Health disciplines, including physiotherapy, occupational therapy and podiatry. A corresponding software application will be developed to enable intelligent matching suggestions of students to placements across hospitals, GP practices and community practices. Tribal will work with representatives from each discipline to ensure that all discipline-specific requirements, as well as the generic system capabilities, are captured.
Following the system's go live in early 2011, Tribal will provide an administration service to support practice placement organisation for students, working in partnership with the placement providers and the university co-ordinators.
The solution is designed to be completely extensible so that additional courses can or HEIs can be added to the consortium.
“We have chosen Tribal to oversee this project because they have the in-depth expertise to tackle what is a very complex brief. The database will make the organisation of students’ placements much more efficient for the academics within the universities, the placement providers, and the students themselves. By centralising details of students at all these universities and contacts at placement providers, the system will allow universities and students greater choice and flexibility in their choice of placement, and will take an administrative burden off the shoulders of academics.”Jacqui Potter, Principal Lecturer in Professional Health Sciences at the University of East London and project champion.
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