Clinical forums

The Critical Care Forum is part of RCOTSS Trauma and Musculoskeletal Health and is the forum for occupational therapists working in or with an interest in critical care.

Aims of Critical Care Forum:

• Provide a forum for the exchange of information, ideas and developments for occupational therapists working within the area of critical care
• Provide guidance on core skill set development for therapists working with the heterogeneous patient cohort of critical care
• Raise awareness of the role of occupational therapy within critical care
• Develop clinical guidelines
• Work jointly to develop resources and research
• Support occupational therapists to develop local services
• Run meetings and training days
• Offer networking opportunities through virtual webinars and virtual/in person events and specialist section annual conference

Critical Care Forum Membership

Membership to the forum is through the Specialist Section pages. If members have any queries or wish to share information please contact the forum leads who will disseminate this to the Forum via a membership enquiry email.

Are you developing anything interesting in your area? Are there any local initiatives that may be of interest to others? We would like to hear what our members are doing in critical care. We would like you to share your learning experiences. Do you have any ideas or suggestions for the Critical Care Forum?

Critical Care Forum Representatives

The Pain Forum is part of RCOTSS Trauma and Musculoskeletal Health and is the forum for occupational therapists working in or with an interest in chronic and persistent pain.

Pain Forum Membership

Membership to the forum is through the Specialist Section pages. If members have any queries or wish to share information please contact the forum leads who will disseminate this to the Forum via a membership enquiry email.

Are you developing anything interesting in your area? Are there any local initiatives that may be of interest to others? We would like to hear what our members are doing in Pain. We would like you to share your learning experiences. Do you have any ideas or suggestions for the Pain Forum?

Aims of the Pain Clinical Forum:

• To promote best practice for occupational therapists working with people who have chronic pain conditions
• To influence, develop, contribute and collaborate on national policy and local initiatives, working in partnership with RCOT and the British Pain Society
• To provide support and advice to other occupational therapists working with people who have a chronic pain condition
• To raise awareness and develop knowledge and skill base of occupational therapy focussed chronic pain interventions
• To develop and sustain regional and national specialist networks
• To promote and encourage opportunities for CPD
• Offer networking opportunities through virtual webinars and virtual/in person events and specialist section annual conference

Pain Forum representative:

Clinical lead - Helen Jennings

Clinical Lead Support Team
Scotland: Vacant
N. Ireland: Vacant
Wales:  Vacant

This clinical forum is for occupational therapists specialising in upper and lower limb prosthetics and amputee rehabilitation.

The forum aims to provide a space for the exchange of information, ideas and developments within the area of upper and lower limb amputees and limb deficient children and promote knowledge, skills and education through meetings and courses.

We meet regularly to network with occupational therapists working at UK limb centres. There is a variety of training sessions, guest speakers, updates from experts and case study presentation.

Our clinical forum lead is Amanda Whistle.

Contact us if you are interested in getting involved in the clinical forum or would like more information. We have a WhatsApp group for members; if you would like to join this group, please contact Amanda at sstmh@rcot.co.uk.

Here are some links which may be of interest to you:

Reach – Helping children with upper limb differences live life without limits (reach.org.uk)

Steps - Health Professionals - Charity Work | Steps Charity (stepsworldwide.org)

Limbless Association - Home - Limbless Association (limbless-association.org)

Hand Smart - handsmart group - Sharing resources of upper limb absence worldwide!

British Society of Rehabilitation Medicine, standards and guidelines for prosthetic amputee rehabilitation - Template for BSRM Reports

The Rheumatology forum is part of RCOTSS Trauma and Musculoskeletal Health and is the forum for occupational therapists working in or with an interest in Rheumatology and musculoskeletal health.

Rheumatology Forum Membership

Membership to the forum is through the Specialist Section pages. If members have any queries or wish to share information please contact the forum leads who will disseminate this to the Forum via a membership enquiry email.

Are you developing anything interesting in your area? Are there any local initiatives that may be of interest to others? We would like to hear what our members are doing in Rheumatology. We would like you to share your learning experiences. Do you have any ideas or suggestions for the Rheumatology Forum?

Aims of the Rheumatology Clinical Forum:

• Provide professional support for members through newletter and network events.
• Promote the exchange of information and experience both formally through webinars and informally using social media and networking evenings.
• Seek to lead the development of best practice based on the best evidence through journal club and members research.
• Offer educational opportunities through virtual webinars and virtual/in person events and specialist section annual conference

We have a network/journal club every other month on a Monday evening 8-9pm on zoom and run webinars every quarter on topical subjects with national speakers. We also have a whatsapp group which is very active.

Rheumatology forum representatives

Clinical Lead - Dervil Dockrell
Clinical Co-lead - Catherine McCoy

Clinical lead support team
Scotland: Jacqui Lebida
N. Ireland: Emma Henry
Wales:  Vacant

We provide a platform for occupational therapists working  or who have an interest in trauma and orthopaedics/MSK

Aims

• Provide professional support for members
• Promote the exchange of information and experience
• Seek to lead the development of best practice based on the best evidence
• Offer networking opportunities through virtual webinars and virtual/in person events and specialist section annual conference

Trauma and Orthopaedics Clinical Forum representatives

Clinical Co-lead - Deborah Davidson

Clinical lead support team
Scotland: Vacant
N. Ireland: Vacant
Wales:  Vacant