Occupational Therapy News OTnews October 2018 | Page 18

REPORT AWARDS
Wendy Foo
Emily Hills
Samantha Pywell
Sophie Smith
therapist at Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust, received
the award for her pilot project ‘Living, not existing: Social
groups for older people’, inspired by the patients that
Claire worked with during her time on the early supported
discharge team rotation at Salisbury District Hospital.
She commenced this pilot project in January 2018
and hopes to complete it by the end of 2018. Claire
said the event was ‘a brilliant opportunity to meet other
occupational therapists and hear about their work, and
‘an opportunity to appreciate the scope of our profession,
which I found both inspiring and motivating’.
The International Travel Award supports a
professional member’s active participation in an overseas
activity, and two awards have been made in 2018.
Wendy Foo qualified as an occupational therapist in
2008, and is passionate about working with adults and
children with neurological conditions, and in global health.
She works as a neuromuscular specialist practitioner at
the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital, and also with
Humanity and Inclusion, supporting the UK Emergency
Medical Team project.
Emily Hills is a neonatal occupational therapist at
the Royal Free NHS Foundation Trust. She has an MSc
in Neonatology, is a certified neonatal therapist and has
completed Newborn Individualised Developmental Care
Assessment Program (NIDCAP) certification.
She is a lecturer for