CAIPE Values & Professional Conduct

Core values:

CAIPE will instil the following interprofessional values and perspectives in all their activities.

  • Ensure high standards of academic rigour in all its scholarly activity.
  • Pursue evidence for best practice in IPE and CP through open-minded
  • Facilitate the dissemination of best evidence for IPE and CP to universities and health and care organisations.
  • Demonstrate leadership of IPE and CP through integrity, honesty, and transparency
  • Seek to improve the care offered to patients, carers/families and communities through progressing IPE and CP
  • Embrace and work to ensure that anti-discriminatory practice is integral to all CAIPE’s work

The CAIPE board and members will:

  • Act in the best interest of CAIPE at all times, bearing in mind its constitution as a Charitable Incorporated Organisation.
  • Create and sustain a diverse and inclusive CAIPE board and membership which is based on mutual respect.
  • Role model best practice in collaborative working through active listening, acknowledgement of different perspectives, courteous and considerate communication and constructive problem solving.
  • Further CAIPE’s mission through active involvement in strategy development, projects, working groups, consultations, and other relevant activities.
  • Advocate for the wider dissemination of the work of CAIPE.

CAIPE decision-making

CAIPE members will:

  • Ensure principles of inclusivity are upheld when agreeing new strategy, policy, and processes for CAIPE.
  • Recognise that decisions are reached through inclusive debate, discussion, and open dialogue.
  • Promote open sharing for dialogue and discourse to understand and clarify concepts when seeking to make decisions on behalf of CAIPE.

Working with patients, families, carers and communities

  • Involve patients, carers, families and communities in the work of CAIPE
  • Respect and uphold the values of patients, and those caring for them
  • Listen to patients, carers, families and communities as we learn with, from and about them

Interprofessional research, education and practice

  • Seek and embrace new knowledge and expertise in the fields of IPE and CP.
  • Promote collaboration and integrated working across health and social care, to improve the quality of care and outcomes for all.
  • Respect individuality, difference, and diversity within and between professional groups.
  • Apply equal opportunities within and between professional groups.

Partnerships

  • Work in partnership with relevant stakeholders, in order to stimulate and expand IPE and CP.
  • Share knowledge and best practice with stakeholders, drawing on others’ expertise and creating networks to develop new ideas.
  • Encourage student leadership of IPE in order to grow the next generation of collaborative practitioners.

GLOSSARY OF TERMS USED

Best Evidence

Best evidence, as applied in this document, can be derived from practice or research.

Community

Community refers to populations with a common theme such as people living in inner city or rural settings; specific groups who experience a health or social care need, for example, homeless people, people with a similar diagnosis; groups with the same protected characteristics or socioeconomic backgrounds.

Patient

The term patient is used throughout this document, but we acknowledge that other terms such as service user and client are preferred in some health and social care settings.