Access Independent Blog

Another week has gone by

Well we have had a lot of enquiries this week, from social services and from other sources, I am hopeful that another good contract is brewing, it is also always useful to have a good number of one off cases happening so we are not so dependent on the big local authority contracts.

We are now starting to organise the mobility day, it will be at the end of September in London, and we are planning to invite all our assessors, other OTs interested in being assessors, local authorities, and we hope to have quite a few people from Transport for London. The idea is to try and make sure all the OT assessors who work for us are using the same criteria, and that we can all talk about the implementation of the new criteria.

We will be sending out invites soon, Ian Seabrook at Transport for London is being very supportive.

Gosh I have found time to write here again!

Well it is an embarressing long time since we last made a post on this blog. My only excuse is that we ahve been extremely busy. We have assessed 600 cases in Brighton in five months, and also done work in Solihull, started a new contract in Merton and even assessed 30 cases in Argyll, including three people on the Isle of Tiree. That was an experience, as Delia went to Tiree to do the assessments, and we all went with herand what was a holiday for me and the kids if not for Delia. Things are a little calmer now, but we have work starting soon in Slough, as well as the ongoing work in Kingston and all the mobility assessments in other London Boroughs.

My efforts to start a childrens service have not been very succesful there is a demand as it is no problem to get enquiries but it is a problem to find OTs who can undertake the work. I have wondered if I should set up something like the Expert Witness programme where OTs register with us, we get the enquiries and pass on the info, and the OT agrees the peice etc. We would charge the OT a small sum to be a member.

Delia is busy planning her mobility day, I think this could be very good as it will allow us to keep the OTs informed of any changes to the criteria for blue badges, Taxi cards and freedom passes. I am also hoping that it might give us a chance to get soem more contracts.

We are also planning another two course for Ots who are interested in private practice, they will both be in London-it is always easier to seel tickets to an event in London-on September 27th and November 1st-both are saturdays. The price will be £140 per person.