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15 December 2017

RCOT Sports Personalities of the Year

Supporting people to play their favourite sport and take part in hobbies is a key component of occupational therapy. To help people live, not merely exist, with long term conditions makes all the difference to people's health and quality of life. Here are a couple of examples of how sport is making...

12 December 2017

Occupational therapy: Promoting the value of employment

Despite the 75% employment rate in the general population, if you are adult with a disability there is less than 5 in 10 chance that you are in employment. Changing this to give everybody equal access to work requires a shift of mind-set from those working across the NHS. All health care clinicians...

08 December 2017

RCOT welcomes news of 10% increase in commissions in Wales for 2018-20

Responding to the Welsh Government announcement that there will be a 10% increase in occupational therapy commissions from 2018 – 2020, Ruth Crowder of the Royal College of Occupational Therapists says: “The Royal College of Occupational Therapists wholeheartedly welcomes today’s announcement, in...

07 December 2017

RCOT comment on NHS Winter Data

Commenting on today’s BBC analysis of A&E waiting times, Julia Scott, Chief Executive at the Royal College of Occupational Therapists (RCOT) says: “The number of long waits at hospital A&E departments is simply unsustainable. Hospitals and ambulance services are struggling to cope and...

04 December 2017

Occupational Therapy: Bridging the Disability Employment Gap

The Royal College of Occupational Therapists wholeheartedly supports the Government’s aspiration that the barriers which prevent people with disabilities from finding and keeping work should be swept away. People in employment report higher levels of well-being, life satisfaction and happiness than...

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