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COTEC seeks occupational therapist experts
In 2015, The Council of Occupational Therapists for European Countries( COTEC) established a‘ register of experts’ in line with the priorities identified by the European targets for 2020, and the World Health Organization areas for action.
In consequence, COTEC is seeking experts in the following areas: mental health; ageing population; dementia; children and adolescents; poverty reduction; primary care; equal access to healthcare systems; ICTsolutions and ehealth innovations; employment; oncology; palliative care; refugees and displaced people; neurology; and rehabilitation.
If you are interested please contact jane. martin @ rcot. co. uk who will send out the information with details of preference of engagement and more details.
NICE INFORMATION
NICE recruits to its fellows and scholars schemes
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence( NICE) fellows and scholars scheme offers the chance for those working in health and social care to gain a unique insight into the work of NICE, influence its work and gain access to a range of career enhancing opportunities.
Fellows and scholars are supported through a series of workshops and access to an allocated adviser.
NICE appoints up to 10 fellows and 10 scholars a year. Fellows and scholars benefit from development opportunities and get to work with
likeminded colleagues from different disciplines across the UK.
NICE fellows are senior health and social care leaders who are ambassadors for the Institute at regional and national levels and among their professional groups and peers.
Over the course of their three-year fellowship they are expected to dedicate around one day a month to using their networks and influence to support NICE in the implementation of its guidance.
NICE scholarships are one-year opportunities for individuals working in health and social care to find out about the inner workings of NICE and undertake an improvement project, related to NICE guidance, within their local area. Scholars are expected to dedicate approximately one day a week to their scholarship activities.
Recruitment for the 2019 intake of NICE fellows and scholars opened on 17 September. The programmes recognise the achievements and promise of individuals from health, public health and social care who are working to improve the quality of care.
Both roles are unpaid and undertaken alongside successful candidates’ existing jobs.
Applications close on 9 November 2018. More information can be found at: www. nice. org. uk / fellows and www. nice. org. uk / scholars.
The November issue of BJOT marks a significant moment. After four highly successful years as BJOT’ s inaugural editor-in-chief, Christine Craik is finishing in the role.
Her hard work for the journal over the years has been astounding and enormously appreciated, as author, reviewer, chair of the editorial board, editorial board member and, most recently, as the journal’ s editor-inchief.
November’ s issue opens with an editorial by Julia Skelton, RCOT director of professional operations, thanking Christine and also welcoming our new editorin-chief, who starts in November.
As you can imagine, Christine is a very hard act to follow, but we are excited to welcome Professor Sharon Gutman, based at Columbia University, NYC. Sharon brings her own wealth of experience, including a period as the editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Occupational Therapy. For more information, please see the editorial in this month’ s issue.
November’ s issue includes a systematic review by Milbourn and colleagues on the relationship between time spent in volunteering activities and quality of life in adults over the age of 50, and Eagers et al’ s qualitative study on the influence of work on the transition to retirement.
Curtis and Beecham contribute a survey identifying the hidden costs of providing a home adaptations service, and Law and colleagues provide a pilot study looking at multisensory stimulation to promote upper extremity motor recovery in stroke.
Finally, two research papers look at mental health, with Swan et al examining meaningful occupation with
iPads in an older person’ s mental health setting and Mulholland and Jackson examining the experience of older adults with anxiety and depression living the community.
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All of the articles are already available to read on BJOT’ s Online First service and will be published together in the November issue.
Christine Craik
Visit the journal via your login at www. rcot. co. uk to browse these and other recent publications.
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