Hello everyone. My name is Kim Masker and I am an OT and certified hand therapist in the US. I am President Elect of the American Society of Hand Therapists and wanted to introduce myself. I'm excited…
Hi I have been given responsibility for writing a new policy on the use of our therapeutic kitchens. Looking at others and existing policies, their is unquestioning use of multiple disposable PPE…
Doctors Association UK is concerned about whether doctors should lose their licence to practice if they protest about climate change. Please fill in the survey if you…
Greener AHP week has interesting events for educators and students including the great work done on leadership placements to encourage sustainability networks by Helen McAlinney in Yorkshire - come…
Technical instructor in the Occupational Therapy Department, Alex Watkins, spoke to me about some projects he's been leading at Langdon Hospital.
Alex initially led projects in the woodworking…
CASCADES (Creating a Sustainable Canadian Health System in a Climate Crisis) have published the Sustainable Occupational Therapy playbook, which is available here.
This playbook provides background…
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I'm scoping a project to help a secondary care team quantify carbon savings from work they've done to reduce the time people spent in MRI scanners, including reducing the need for general…
The RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch took place this weekend, with over 5 million birds counted so far.There’s still time to get involved with service users or colleagues and tell the RSPB what birds you see…
As my 18 month contract with RCOT drew to a close I was pleased to be able to represent RCOT at the British Association of Hand Therapist's annual conference on 6-7th Oct 2023. I was able to promote…
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Has anyone started thinking about Christmas already?
It is hard to believe 2023 has flown by so quickly and we are heading for December in a few days. In the spirit of the upcoming…