Department of Health (2007) CIPW 2nd Supplement, Interprofessional Education in the United Kingdom- Some Historical Perspectives 1966-1996 (Barr, H.).

From the late 1960s, Parallel developments in community care, primary care, learning disabilities, mental health, elder care, palliative care and other fields in employment
and educational settings gathered momentum, converging into a single movement from the late 1980s, and paved the way to establish IPE nationwide from the late 1990s.

Initiatives are grouped in this paper into three mutually reinforcing subsidiary movements:
• Work-based
• Pre-qualifying
• Qualifying