Occupation

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maintenance at work. Currently employed by Sheffield Teaching
Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust as a clinical specialist OT.
Nicki Noden has extensive clinical expertise and experience since
qualifying in 1984 as an Occupational Therapist and has an
MSc. in Hand Therapy. Over the last 30 years Nicki’s work has
predominately focused on the assessment and rehabilitation of
upper limb injuries, specialising in orthopaedic, plastic surgery
and musculoskeletal conditions. Nicki also has experience
and expertise in conservative management of scaring and
burns. Nicki has experience of undertaking functional capacity
evaluations, vocational workplace assessments including
ergonomic considerations. Currently employed by Sheffield
Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust as a clinical specialist
OT.
P2
Research into practice – review of practice guidelines
Barker L 1 , Lovegrove R 2 , North East London Foundation
Trust (NELFT) 1 , Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation
Trust 2
The guidelines, occupational therapy with people who have had
lower limb amputation, were developed in 2011 to provide an
evidence-based resource for occupational therapists working
with adults with acquired unilateral or bilateral lower limb
amputations (COT 2011).
As part of the College of Occupational Therapists guidelines
review process, a literature search was undertaken to establish
new evidence. Alongside this, a survey was sent to the COT
specialist section trauma and orthopaedics membership, to
evaluate use of the guidelines in practice.
This poster presentation will illustrate the outcome of the review
process and future plans for the guidelines.
References
College of Occupational Therapists (COT) 2011 Occupational
therapy with people who have had lower limb amputations,
evidence-based guidelines 1st ed. London COT
Keywords
Adult physical health, Practice development, Practice – present
and future, NHS
Contact E-mail Addresses
lindsey.barker@nelft.nhs.uk
Author Biographies
Lindsey Barker: Clinical specialist occupational therapist at Harold
Wood Long Term Conditions Centre, prosthetic service since
2011. Prosthetic OT representative on COT specialist section
trauma and orthopaedics.
P3
Exploring the use of personal care assessments
when planning a hospital rehab discharge
Daykin A, Mid Yorkshire NHS Trust
Exploring the use of personal care’s assessments when planning
a hospital rehab discharge
Personal care assessments have been used in occupational
therapy practices’ for a number of years. However how often
do we consider the evidence of why such assessments are still
being performed and are any changes required? Upon these
considerations by the author a comprehensive literature search
discovered significant lack of research was available around the
topic, therefore the key words occupational performance was
used to ensure a feasible literature base.
The author started to examine the role of the occupational
therapist in an intermediate care setting. Intermediate care is
defined as short term care that provides extra support for people
to recover, that lasts a maximum of six weeks, (NHS 2015). The
intermediate care setting was reviewed with regards to this
standard in addition to the complex discharge planning that was
often longer than a six week and rehabilitative assessments were
rarely used by the occupational therapist (OT).
Aim: To determine whether the assessments used are for a
rehabilitation tool or for discharge planning and an indicator for
long term care needs. Is there is shift in the OT role in the 21 st
century
Ethical approval not required due to evaluation of the
assessments were being reviewed not the content.
Results of the research are expected to be from a discharge
point of view, the evidence will be shared in presentation form.
Crennan and MacRae (2010) found that patients want OTs
not to rely so much on discharge co-ordinators and be able to
provide onward information themselves.
Implications and importance to occupational therapy
• This could refine the role of OT
• Validate our practice and justify the need for OTs in the
discharge process in all health settings
• To re-establish the need for a focussed rehab process
• To prove/disprove the challenges in current day NHS UK
strategy
References
Crennan M and Macrae A (2010) Occupational Therapy
Discharge Assessment of Elderly Patients from Acute Care
Hospitals Physical and Occupational Therapy in Geriatrics 28(1)
p 33–40
NHS (2015) Your care after discharge from hospital http://www.
nhs.uk/conditions/social-care-and-support-guide/pages/hospitaldischarge-care.aspx
[accessed: 18/9/15]
Keywords
Adult physical health, Audit, Pathways or models of service
delivery, Practice – present and future
Contact E-mail Addresses
abbegail.errienne@hotmail.co.uk
Author Biographies
Abby Daykin – 26 years old, band 5 occupational therapist
working in Wakefield intermediate care
P4
Multidisciplinary personalised care planning in the
community
Bradford J, Moore A, Kent Community Health NHS
Foundation Trust
Economic analysis shows an increasing ageing population
with long term, complex and multiple health conditions. This
future demand in adult physical health will require innovative
practice to manage the anticipated increase in the NHS Deficit.
In response, the Five Year Forward View (NHS England, 2014)
promotes self-management through active patient involvement.
Kent Community Health Foundation Trust embraces these
principles by further developing the East Kent Outcome System
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