'Activity provision: benchmarking good practice in care homes'
October 4, 2007 16:10 PM
Activity Provision - ENGLISH (518KB PDF)*
Activity Provision - WELSH (530KB PDF)*
This document is aimed at care home providers, managers and commissioners, and is also available to residents, their families and friends, and inspectors. It offers a framework of person-centred quality indicators and outcome measures to inform, guide and encourage those who are responsible for and take part in managing, developing, providing, purchasing and inspecting activity provision within care homes. It also provides a guide for inspectors on good practice in activity provision.
Building the evidence for occupational therapy: Priorities for research (2007)
This publication identifies the priority areas for occupational therapy research in the UK for the next five years. Focusing research activity within identified priority areas will help ensure that all occupational therapy practice is knowledge and evidence informed. The publication identifies research priorities from the BAOT membership, specialist sections, professional organisation, service users and carers, and is of relevance to all occupational therapists, students, commissioners and researchers.
Author: College of Occupational Therapists
Category: Research and Review
Download: Building the evidence for Occupational Therapy - 34pp (350KB PDF*)
Fatigue Management for People with Multiple Sclerosis
This publication provides occupational therapists with the theoretical background and evidence base for fatigue management. It includes practical guidance and resources that can be used to implement a fatigue management programme, and is designed to meet the immediate demand of occupational therapists working with people with multiple sclerosis in both community-based and in-patient rehabilitation settings.
Author: Sarah Harrison
Price: BAOT members £20; Non-members £30
Format: A4, 100pp, plus CD ROM
Code: P142 (please quote this code when placing your order)
Category: Guidance
View sample pages (118KB PDF*)
Enabling Everyday Lives: A report into occupational therapy in social services departments in Wales (2007)
Jill Riley
This report, commissioned by the College of Occupational Therapists' Welsh board in September 2006 and informed by the Community Occupational Therapy Advisory Group in Wales (COTAG), draws together evidence from a range of existing documents, reports and literature, to establish the contribution that occupational therapy can make to the Assembly's vision for heath and wellbeing in Wales.
Download: 64pp
Text in: English (1.33MB PDF*) and Welsh (1.35MB PDF*)
Not available to order: download only
Category: Research and Review
Recovering Ordinary Lives: The strategy for occupational therapy in mental health services 2007-2017
Download Recovering Ordinary Lives (276KB PDF*)
Download the Literature review (473KB PDF*)
Download the Results from service user and carer focus groups (554KB PDF*)
- A vision for the next ten years;
- Literature review;
- Results from service user and carer focus groups.
This strategy identifies clearly the unique contribution of occupational therapy within mental health services and provides direction for the development of the profession in this field. Three documents are available: A vision for the next ten years, the Literature review and Results from service user and carer focus groups.
The aims of the strategy include:
- To reassert the profession's belief that occupation is essential to health and wellbeing.
- To create a strategic vision for the future of OT services in mental health across the UK.
- To make recommendations for action to achieve the strategic vision.
Author: College of Occupational Therapists
Publication date: December 2006
Price: FREE download or hard copy on request
Category: Essential
The Preceptorship Training Manual: A resource for occupational therapists
This manual supports occupational therapy managers and trainers as they apply the ‘Preceptorship’ model, a system for guiding newly-qualified occupational therapists through their first year in practice. It provides training materials and presentation notes for running Preceptorship workshops and advice on linking Preceptorship into local Agenda for Change policies and procedures.
View sample pages (47KB PDF*)
Author: College of Occupational Therapists
Price: BAOT members £48; Non-members £88
Ring binder: 534pp, plus CD ROM
Code: P140 (please quote this code when placing your order)
Category: Essential
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