The NHS in England is facing severe financial constraints which will begin to impact on NHS Health Trusts in 2011. As a result, far reaching changes are needed to support the NHS in delivering its quality and efficiency commitments through...
Organisation and management of OT services briefings
This briefing seeks to provide managers with guidance on modelling their workforce planning needs in order to determine the number and grade of staff required to deliver their service. It has been produced in response to the number of...
The term ‘performance management’ is a broad term that includes both dealing with an individual or team that is performing poorly, and maximising the performance of a successful individual or team, so as to meet even higher...
This briefing describes some of the different actions you can take if you are concerned about the poor practice and behaviour of an occupational therapist who works for statutory services such as health or social services, for private or...
With the introduction of the Health and Social Care Act (2012) in England, integration is high on the list of health and social care commissioners, providers and practitioners.
As one key aim is now for multi-professional, multi-agency...
Business cases are usually written to justify the resources and capital investments needed to bring a project into action. They are also used to present an argument that a particular course of action is better than the present one…...
The purpose of this briefing is to summarise the concept and principles of supervision within the current context of occupational therapy practice, to provide links to useful resources and identify any implications for staff within the...
This Briefing paper is part of a series on aspects of service quality, including effective practice, audit, governance in health and social care, assessments and outcome measures. This one provides background information and broad...
The purpose of this briefing is to provide examples of workload weighting to assist caseload management but it is not an answer to all caseload management problems. If you are finding managing your caseload difficult due to demand and time...
