The balance of occupation-focused and generic tasks within a mental health and learning disability occupational therapy service

摘要

A service-wide audit was conducted (audit 1,2002) to ascertain the balance of occupation-focused versus generic tasks being undertaken by occupational therapists. This identified that 66% of all tasks were occupation focused, whereas only 41 % of all assessments could be described as such. Recommendations were pursued to implement occupation-focused assessments. Audit 2 (2005) showed that the majority of assessments were occupation focused (61 %), and audits 3 (2006) and 4 (2007) indicated that this increase was maintained. Audit 4 also demonstrated the negative impact of care coordination duties on an occupational therapist's ability to complete occupation-focused assessments.