Executive summary and recommendations
We review the development of pre-qualifying interprofessional education (IPE) in the United Kingdom (UK) from 1997 to 2013 drawing on three sources: the literature, an online survey and reflective accounts by invited teachers with follow-up interviews. The aim of the research was to understand how prequalifying IPE had developed and what needed to be done to improve its efficiency and effectiveness set against a changing and complex policy landscape in education, health and social care, and government.