Greener AHP Week: Sustainable Hand Therapy - Green Team Winners

Presentation: Hand Therapy Pre-operative Appointment for Plastic Hand Trauma Patients

The Hand Therapy Team Leads, Emma Baker and Lucy Wimmer, streamlined their process creating a new pathway in which patients identified as needing surgery are sent straight from their plastics appointment to the hand therapy department. A hand therapist sees patient when able (usually within 15 mins) to discuss the hand therapy process with patient and answer questions, provide handouts including general post op information and Hand Therapy contact details.

This talk will explain the processes, the feedback from staff and patients, time, money and environmental savings.

Emma Baker and Lucy Wimmer, Hand Therapy Team Leads