Occupational Therapy News OTnews July 2019 | Page 11
NEWS
Apprentice educators meet for the first time
Apprenticeship forum meets for the first time
The inaugural meeting of the Occupational Therapy Integrated Degree
Apprenticeship Forum was held in June. Representatives from Canterbury
Christ Church University, University of Chichester, Coventry University,
University of East Anglia, University of Northampton and Sheffield Hallam
University met together and were delighted to welcome Anita Cooper from
the United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust and representatives from RCOT.
Meetings will be held three times a year with practice partners joining
the membership of future meetings. Approximately 150 apprentices will be
commencing pre-registration occupational therapy education over the next
12 months as programmes continue to launch across England. For more
information email: [email protected] with ‘OT IDA forum’
in the subject line. There is more on the developing apprenticeship schemes
on page 17.
Front of house team wins
Cosyfeet OT Award
A band six locum occupational
therapist working for
Cambridgeshire and
Peterborough NHS Foundation
Trust has won the Cosyfeet OT
Award 2019.
Ann Drea
Ann Drea works in a pilot
front of house team which supports people to return
home as quickly as possible.
Her £1,000 award money will be used to purchase
assessment equipment to facilitate a safe and speedy
return home for clients referred by Hinchingbrooke
Hospital’s A&E department and acute assessment unit.
In the first three months of this year, the team
received 401 referrals, resulting in 143 safer discharges
and 116 instances of admission avoidance.
Ann says: ‘Having a stock of assessment equipment
for clients to try out with instruction will help us work
more effectively. We can more readily involve clients
and their support network in their safe return to self-
management.’
For more information about the Cosyfeet OT Award,
visit: www.cosyfeet.com/professionals/otaward.
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