British Association of Occupational Therapists
College of Occupational Therapists

Position Statement on Transforming Community Equipment Services

April 28, 2008 11:35 AM

A review of equipment services has been carried out by the Care Services Efficiency Delivery programme (CSED). Transforming Community Equipment Services (TCES) was developed as a result of this review. It aims to give everyone more choice and control over the services they receive and to give people who pay for themselves (i.e. self-funders) the help, advice and information they need when selecting and using equipment. TCES will not change the way users and carers who need state support are assessed. It will, however, provide greater opportunities for occupational therapists to support and enable people, especially those who are not entitled to help from the state sector. The College has produced a position statement in response to the TCES.

Download the Position Statement on Transforming Community Equipment Services

New Publication - Health Promotion Sample Download

April 9, 2008 11:35 AM

The College is pleased to announce the publication of Health promotion in occupational therapy, a valuable new resource highlighting the links between occupation and health and between occupation therapy and health promotion. For a sample of what to expect, please feel free to download the Health Promotion Extract. (754KB*)

College of Occupational Therapists Pre-registration Education Standards

March 5, 2008 15:05 PM

The College is pleased to announce the publication of a revised edition of its Pre-registration Education Standards, which have been developed to serve as dynamic quality indicators against which the College of Occupational Therapists can judge an individual programme’s suitability for professional body accreditation. The standards support and facilitate the development of an occupational therapy curriculum, leading to approval by the World Federation of Occupational Therapists, and are suitable to meet the requirements of the regulatory and statutory bodies in the United Kingdom. They cover four main areas:

• Programme management and resources standards;
• Curriculum standards;
• Learning, teaching and assessments standards;
• Quality assurance and monitoring standards.
  

New Ways of Working in Mental Health

January 11, 2008 09:45 AM

This Department of Health initiative provides the future model of service provision for all members of the multidisciplinary team. This PowerPoint presentation explains the background to the project and the implications for Occupational Therapy.
Download a powerpoint presentation about NWW and Occupational Therapy (135KB)

New publication: Vocational navigation for occupational therapy staff

January 4, 2008 17:40

Work matters: vocational navigation for occupational therapy staff is the result of a collaboration between the College of Occupational Therapists and the National Social Inclusion Programme. It is aimed at occupational therapists and other allied health professionals and provides good practice guidance to support their work with people on their journeys to employment. It outlines some of the barriers and how occupational therapists can work with people to identify and tackle these. It also introduces some ideas on engaging with people around work issues and signposts readers to useful sources of information and potential partner organisations.

Exhibition, Exhibitor Workshop and Sponsorship Opportunities at Harrogate 2008

January 3, 2007 10:14

If you would like to reach senior managers, practitioners, a large number of occupational therapists and students at Annual Conference 2008, please download the Annual Conference and Exhibition prospectus (1.17MB PDF). The prospectus outlines details about the exhibition, sponsorship opportunities and exhibitor workshops at the College's 32nd Annual Conference and Exhibition at Harrogate.

Annual Review 2006-2007

December 19, 2007 5:30 PM

The Annual Review 2006-2007 is now available to either view online or download. Covering the period from the 1st October 2006 to 30th September 2007 the Review charts our progress against five key strategic aims.