Newham Adult Social Care Occupational Therapy Team

The role of the Occupational Therapy team is to work with individual patients to increase their independence and safety to undertake everyday activities (occupations) that are important to them.

Important: Please advise patients to complete an assessment via Ask Sara before you make a referral to Occupational Therapy. The link to access the self-assessment is here.

Occupational therapy work with people who have a long term health condition who meet at least one of the criteria below:

  • They’ve already tried basic equipment and it’s not meeting their long-term needs
  • More complex equipment/adaptions are required
  • The patient is likely to have a neurological or degenerative condition that fluctuates
  • The patient has limited rehab potential

Please note, Occupational Therapy DO NOT deal with the following:

Service statistics
Usually replies in 9 days
73% of referrals accepted
Service access criteria: Resident of Newham. Patient has a long term health condition who meet at least one of the criteria below: They’ve already tried basic equipment and it’s not meeting their long-term needs. More complex equipment/adaptions are required. The patient is likely to have a neurological or degenerative condition that fluctuates. The patient has limited rehab potential
Categories:
Leaving hospital
Information and advice
Managing a long-term health condition
Services for older people
Support for carers
Additional needs catered for:
Wheelchair accessible
Physical disability friendly
Waiting list (weeks): 20
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Who can refer: Professional referrals only
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