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Recording and evaluating occupational therapy outcomes in a social service setting
- Author:
- ARMSTRONG Sue
- Journal article citation:
- Managing Community Care, 9(4), August 2001, pp.39-43.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
This article describes how social services occupational therapy team developed a method of documenting outcomes and evaluating results for equipment and adaptation services. The aims were to capture the qualitative nature of the work and to begin to create evidence on the practice of occupational therapy in social services.
Lost from view
- Author:
- MOUNTAIN Gail
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 5.10.00, 2000, p.26.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The government's laudable aims of reducing hospital stays and increasing independent living for disabled people are set to lengthen waiting lists for occupational therapy services yet further. Calls for new long-term solutions.
A question of good practice? Community care law and occupational therapists
- Author:
- MANDELSTAM Michael
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 61(8), August 1998, pp.351-358.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Occupational therapists working in social services departments and delivering community care continue to be subject to anxiety about the legality of some of their actions. This article considers aspects of relevant legislation decisions of the law courts and recommendations of the local ombudsmen.
The implementation of the Fair Access to Care Services national eligibility framework within Essex: an exploration of practice issues by adult social care assessors
- Author:
- POUNTNEY Kay
- Publisher:
- Essex Social Care Services
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 35p.
- Place of publication:
- Braintree
In April 2003 Essex County Council adopted the National Eligibility Framework for Fair Access to Care Services (adult social care). This piece of research was commissioned to look in more detail at the experiences of social work practitioners who were using FACS eligibility criteria in their everyday practice. Five in depth focus groups were held, one for each of the following specialisms: Older People, Learning Disability, Occupational Therapy, Physical and Sensory Impairment, and Social Care Direct (telephone referrals). Participants represented teams from across Essex, and included social workers of different levels of experience, and with different roles. The number of participants involved in the research was twenty seven. Some differences in interpretation of the bandings were noted by practitioners, and it was felt that the experience and training of the assessor would influence their banding decision. Regarding how practitioners, and particularly new team members, gained an understanding of how to use FACs, it was found that there is currently an emphasis on informal learning from colleagues, although senior practitioners and team managers also give guidance. Practitioners were concerned that information on a person’s needs was not always being adequately recorded at initial referral and after assessment, thereby making it difficult to apply the FACS criteria. There was considerable uncertainty among the practitioners in relation to the recording of low and moderate levels of need. The main suggestions to arise from the research were: to provide clear guidance to adult social care teams and referrers on what information about a person’s needs should be recorded, in what detail, and where to ensure that low and moderate level needs which do not currently meet the criteria for a service are consistently recorded in a form that they can be analysed for planning purposes; to provide training on how FACS is used, as part of a standard induction programme or rolling training programme for new team members who are undertaking assessments.
Adapting for community care, part 2
- Author:
- ADAMS Jo
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 59(4), April 1996, pp.185-187.
- Publisher:
- Sage
This article examines the provision and funding of home adaptions for people with physical disabilities. Part 1 concluded that people with disabilities receive an adaption service that is skewed according to housing tenure and local policy implementation. Part 2 examines the response of one county's social services department and its senior grade occupational therapists in the assessment and allocation of a home adaption service across housing tenure and across the county. It investigates the role of the community occupational therapists in assessing home adaptions across that county and the shortcomings in the Disabled Facilities Grant system as documented by service users. Recommendations are made for improving the adaption service across housing tenure for people with disabilities.
Occupational therapy: the community contribution; report on local authority occupational therapy services
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health. Social Services Inspectorate
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health. Social Services Inspectorate
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 56p.,tables.
- Place of publication:
- London
An evaluation of occupational therapy services provided by local authorities. Contains recommendations for improvements in the service, including cutting down on excessive waiting times and improvements in workforce planning and management. Also stresses the importance of joint work with occupational therapy services in the NHS.