Promote OT to GPs
You may want to target your local GPs practices during Occupational Therapy Week to explain how occupational therapy can support their practice and make a difference to the lives of their patient
There is a template letter offering free OT advice to GP practices and don't forget to use the resources developed for BAOT members who want to Influence Service Commissioners.
Download Template Letter to a GP
Enjoy promoting the profession during occupational therapy week, and don't forget to record what you have done in your CPD portfolio.
Occupational therapists can save money for commissioners of older people's services
Occupational therapists provide cost effective solutions for older people's care and can support older people with reablement, preventing falls, remaining safe and independent at home and public health. Occupational therapists’ training includes understanding the medical, physical and psychological impact of disability or injury, as well as rehabilitative techniques in restoring and aiding recovery. Occupational therapists are therefore pivotal in ensuring reablement services are efficient, effective, and reduce dependency (College of Occupational Therapists 2010).
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Occupational therapists provide cost effective solutions for mental health services
Occupational therapists work with service users to help them to regain and maintain a personally satisfying routine of everyday activities – this could include self care, leisure or work activities - that they need or want to do, in order to help people experiencing mental health problems to live life their way. By working in this way, occupational therapists can ensure service users choose health-enhancing activity and alter lifestyle habits such as smoking, diet and exercise.
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