Assessment & Learning in Practice Settings (ALPS) is an ambitious programme bringing together a collaboration of five Higher Education Institutions, health and social care providers, including the NHS, service users, carers and students. With the shared aim of ensuring that students graduating from courses in health and social care are fully equipped to perform confidently and competently at the start of their professional careers so improving the standards of care, ALPS is identifying examples of existing good practice and using these to develop innovative methods of assessing students in practice.