Occupational Therapy

The Practice Development Network for Allied Health Professions - Occupational Therapy is chaired by Claire Muir.  There is network representation across Scotland.  The dates of the network meetings for 2008/ 2009 are:

• Wednesday 10 December 2008, NHS QIS, Delta House, Meeting Room 2, 50 West Nile Street, Glasgow, G1 2NP
• Wednesday 11 March 2009, Dunfermline - Venue To Be Confirmed
• Wednesday 17 June 2009, Hairmyers Hospital
• Wednesday 16 September 2009, NHS QIS, Delta House, Meeting Room 2, 50 West Nile Street, Glasgow, G1 2NP

Click here to view the minutes from the Occupational Therapy Practice Development Network Meeting that took place on 17th September 2008 in Falkirk (PDF, 34.2KB, 28secs)

Occupational Therapists' Mission Statement

In their Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct for Occupational Therapists , the College of Occupational Therapists (COT) state that all Occupational Therapy staff must maintain and improve their own professional standards by:

• Achieving and continuously maintaining high standards of competence
• Being responsible for actively maintaining and developing their professional competence
• Achieving base service delivery on accurate and current information in the interests of high quality patient care
• Promoting understanding of and contribute to, the development of Occupational Therapy.

Network Objectives

Click here to view the Occupational Therapy Objectives for 2008 (Word, 47KB, 30 secs)

Regional Network Updates

Service Development Initiatives

• Click here to download the instructions on how to use the initiatives document (Word, 24K, 6 Secs)
• Click here to download the Occupational Therapy Service Development Initiatives (Excel, 1M, 2.29 Mins)
• Click here to download the blank template (Excel, 14K, 3 Secs)

Please email completed templates to ahpadmin.qis@nhs.net.

Promotional Information

• Occupational Therapy Intervention - Down's Syndrome and Dementia (Powerpoint, 1.3M, 6.18 mins)
• Practice Development National National Poster (PDF, 374K, 1.56 Mins)
• Practice Development Network Local Poster (PDF, 341K, 1.46 Mins)
• Practice Development Network for Occupational Therapy Presentation Template (PPT, 104, 32 Secs)
• OT News Article (PDF, 16K, 5 Secs)

Click here to view the presentation on Ankle Foot Orthoses Best Practice Statement which Roy Bowers (Project Lead) presented at the OT Practice Development Network Meeting on 17th Sept 08 (Powerpoint, 650KB, 9mins)

Useful Links

British Association/College of Occupational Therapists
You can access special interest group information from here

Occupational Therapy in Trauma & Orthopaedics

Health Professions Council

NHS Scotland - e-library

NHS Scotland - Clinical Governance

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