Occupational therapy for adults undergoing total hip replacement
COTSS Trauma and Orthopaedics is delighted to announce that a draft of the practice guideline, ‘Occupational therapy for adults undergoing total hip replacement’, is now available for consultation by BAOT members.
Occupational Therapy Study on our falls training programme 03 Jan 2012
NICE End of Life Care Quality Standard
It provides specific, concise quality statements, measures and audience descriptors to provide the public, health and social care professionals, commissioners and service providers with definitions of high-quality care.
NICE Public Health Guidance (PH16) to be reviewed again in 2014
In line with the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) review process, public health guidance 16 'Occupational therapy interventions and physical activity interventions to promote the mental wellbeing of older people in primary care and residential care' (2008) has been reviewed to determine whether all or part of it should be updated at this stage.
Ten reasons to use OT services
In these challenging times there is greater focus on the efficacy of services provided within health and social care. The ten reasons on this page will help occupational therapists prove the value of occupational therapy services to service commissioners and other relevant professionals. These resources are provided by the College to support BAOT members in the provision of high quality services for service users and their carers.
September 2011 Newsletter
Keeping safe and maintaining independence: older people and sight loss
Protection of older people in Wales: A guide to the law
The Older People’s Commissioner has published a really useful guide to the law around protection of older people. Its purpose is to help make practitioners more aware of the law available to them in their day to day work. It is not a substitute for obtaining legal advice nor is it a definitive statement of the law. However, it is a helpful starting point.
