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College of Occupational Therapists Is COT working for you? Genevieve Smyth Crown Plaza Hotel, 27 th April, 2009. Introduction. Products and events Networks Consultations. Products to support you. 3 keys to a shared approach in mental health assessment (NIMHE 2008)
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College of Occupational TherapistsIs COT working for you?Genevieve SmythCrown Plaza Hotel, 27th April, 2009
Introduction • Products and events • Networks • Consultations
Products to support you • 3 keys to a shared approach in mental health assessment (NIMHE 2008) • OT interventions and physical activity interventions to promote the mental wellbeing of older people in primary care and residential care (NICE 2008) • Mental Health Act 2007 New roles (NIMHE 2008)
Products • Enhance, Include, Evolve –New ways of working for allied health professionals (CSIP/NIMHE 2009) • Development of the Recovering Ordinary Lives self assessment toolkits • OTN –Jan and March focus on mental health, recent articles about payment by results, new roles under the Mental health act (2007)
Events to support you • Recovering Ordinary Lives study day • Recovering Ordinary Lives –Two years on • Celebration of Socially Inclusive OT practice • Inter professional Stock take and Showcase of Socially Inclusive Practice
Events • COTSS-Mental Health Eating Disorder sub group study day • Creating Capable Teams Approach workshop • COT led sessions at the COT conference in the Mental Capacity act (2005) and the Mental Health act (2007) • Wales –teaching session about the new roles, Wales mental health managers about developing local mental health strategies
Networks to support you • COTSS-Mental Health National Executive committee meetings • COTSS- Mental Health Forensics sub group conference • New Ways of Working Steering Group –NHS Confederation • Inter professional collaborative with key professional bodies
Networks • All Party Parliamentary Groups for Suicide Prevention run by the Samaritans • All Party Parliamentary Group for Mental Health run by the Royal College of Psychiatrists • The email network for mental health strategic lead/head OTs in the UK
Networks • Scotland – AHP Advisor on mental health to the Scottish Government, COTSS-Mental Health Scottish sub group, AHP Federation Scotland • Northern Ireland –Primary Care and Mental Health MDT conference with the DHSSPSNI
Networks • Star Wards groovy 1960s conference • Stand to Reason conference
Consultations to support you • Meetings as part of inter professional work with Ministers Ivan Lewis and Phil Hope • MIND policy group • Wales – Welsh Assembly Goverment discussions about a Mental Health Measure
Consultations • Northern Ireland Delivering the Bamford Vision Psychological services Personality Disorder Mental Health and mental capacity legislation
Conclusion • What’s working for you? • How can you work for us? • Genevieve.Smyth@cot.co.uk