Allied Health Professions

Methodology

Where every figure on this site comes from

This build draws on 27 registered sources and holds 1,223 records across 11 entity types. It was compiled on 3 September 2026. Everything below explains how it got here and what to do with the gaps.

27 Registered sources 10 openly licensed
1,223 Records in this build Across every entity type
1 Dataset version
3 September 2026 Built Licences last checked 3 September 2026

How the pipeline works

There are four steps, and they always run in the same order. First, a fetch stage pulls each dataset from its publisher — an approved-programme list, a pay circular, a bursary scheme’s published rules, a workforce statistics release — and stores the raw response with the date it was retrieved. Second, a normalisation stage maps each publisher’s own vocabulary onto the site’s: a course is tied to a profession slug and a provider slug, an employer is tied both to the ITL1 region that course facets use and to the NHS region its publisher assigns it, and a pay point is tied to a nation and a pay year.

Third, everything is validated against a schema in which provenance is compulsory. Any externally sourced value is wrapped in a structure that requires a source identifier, and a value that arrives without one fails the build rather than being published unattributed. The same schema makes almost every field optional, which is the deliberate half of the design: the pipeline omits what it cannot verify instead of defaulting it. Fourth, the validated result is written as a single build artefact, and the site is rendered entirely from that file — so every page in this deployment is guaranteed to be describing the same dataset as every other page.

What “not published” means

It means the field is genuinely absent from the source. A course with no tuition fee shown has no published fee in the data the regulator or provider released; a profession with no registrant count has none the register publishes separately. It does not mean zero, it does not mean the value is small, and it is not a placeholder for something the site will guess at later.

Two related labels are worth knowing. Where a figure covers a family of professions rather than one — the register keeps a single count for arts therapists, and the occupational classification keeps one code for several roles — the page marks it as a shared figure and names the group, because splitting it would be invention. And where a source permits linking but not republishing, the site links out instead of copying the value across.

What is in this build

Counts come straight from the build artefact that rendered this page. If a number here drops after a refresh, a source has changed shape and something upstream needs looking at.

Records by entity type, dataset version 1, built 3 September 2026
Entity Records What the records are
Professions 15 One record per allied health profession, with its regulator, protected titles, entry routes and typical starting band.
Approved courses 677 Pre-registration programmes on a regulator’s approved list, with route, award, duration and campus.
Universities 101 Providers derived from the course set — a university appears once it has at least one approved course.
Apprenticeship standards 13 Approved standards that lead to registration, with level, typical duration and funding band.
NHS employers 242 Trusts, health boards and HSC trusts, with organisation type, geography and any published workforce rows.
Pay scales 6 One Agenda for Change scale per nation per published year. The site always renders the newest year for a nation.
Funding schemes 8 Bursaries, grants and loan arrangements, with eligible professions, eligible routes and scheme elements.
Labour market facts 68 Workforce, vacancy, earnings and apprenticeship-start figures, each tied to a profession and a period.
Regional earnings 13 Whole-economy median pay by region — the benchmark an NHS band figure is read against, not a profession figure.
Geographies 53 Two overlapping sets: the ITL1 regions and nations that courses and jobs are faceted by, and the NHS regions and health boards employers sit in.
Sources 27 The licence registry. Every published figure carries at least one identifier that resolves here.

Pay scales are held for several years per nation so historic circulars stay available; the site publishes the newest year each nation has released. The current headline pay year is 2026/27.

How often each source refreshes

A source is only as current as its publisher makes it. Grouping the registry by declared cadence is the honest way to say how stale any given page can be.

Quarterly
1 source — Apprenticeships (starts, achievements and participation)
Annual
2 sources — LEO graduate and postgraduate outcomes and NHS Learning Support Fund guidance

24 sources publish on no stated schedule — typically a page that is edited whenever the underlying rule changes rather than released as a dated statistic. Those are refreshed on the same cycle as everything else and re-checked against the publisher at each build.

Licensing, in one paragraph

The registry sorts every source into three states. 10 are open — Open Government Licence or an equivalent — and can be reused with attribution, which is what the source block at the foot of each page provides. 9 are conditional: reusable, but only on stated terms such as a required attribution line, a link back to the publisher, or registration for an API key (5 of the registry needs a key). 8 are restricted and must not be republished at all; they are recorded so that the pipeline can refuse them, and the site links to them instead. 1 permit linking but not republishing.

Because the status is stored with the source rather than remembered by a person, a restricted source cannot quietly end up feeding a page: the validator refuses a build in which it does. The source registry lists all of them, grouped by status, with the conditions written out.

Common questions

What does “not published” mean on a page?

The field is absent from the source data for that entity. It does not mean zero and it does not mean unknown-but-probably-typical. The site renders the gap rather than filling it, because a figure here is only useful if it can be traced.

How often does the data change?

Each source refreshes on its publisher’s own cycle — approved-programme lists change continuously, pay circulars annually, workforce statistics monthly or quarterly. The dataset is rebuilt on a schedule and the build date is shown in the footer of every page.

Can I reuse the figures on this site?

That depends on the source. Open Government Licence and CC-BY material can be reused with attribution; several sources carry conditions, and a small number may not be reused at all. The source registry states the licence for every one.

Related

Every source in this build

The complete registry behind the counts above. Each entry links to the publisher and states the licence it is published under.