Challenge: The Hampshire County Council Adult Services Department provides Occupational Therapy (OT) services to residents that require intervention. The Department experienced various challenges around providing effective OT services, including: Long wait times, sometimes several months, from the citizen request to the initial assessment by a qualified OT practitioner, Inconsistent practices across the county, including varying degress of collaboration between departments, different operating times and varying degrees of accessibility, OT practitioners did not always have full and comprehensive information to create a case plan prior to the assessment visit, which sometimes resulted in additional wait times and visits to establish even simple treatment plans. Click here to read more…
