Hannah - OT in Deaf mental health

Thanks @thercot.bsky.social

Yes good point, wonder if RCOT have thoughts 🤔

OT assessments:

Our assessments have always included aspects of ability as well as challenges; however now with the PIP cuts, I feel like if I write anything someone CAN do on a MOHOST, it would be used to cut that persons benefits.

I still have twitter but don’t use it. Now I don’t use it, it’s now relentlessly sending JKR & far right shyte notifications. I never used to get this. I guess now I’m not feeding it, it reverts to its default.

Kept it for the contacts.

Does anyone else think it’s a bit dangerous that the NHS app information is wrong?

I have wrong referrals, wrong diagnosis, wrong medication, wrong requests for action, old appointments which weren’t outcomes etc 🙃

I miss the twitter/X #OT community but I don’t want to use that platform anymore

BBC One - Reunion Convicted for murder, a deaf man fights for redemption – and revenge.

Ok so who is going to nominate #Reunion for an Oscar, BAFTA etc?

This was INCREDIBLE

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Open Letter from AbleOTUK: Opposing Cuts and Calling for Co-Production to Tackle the Real Barriers Faced by Disabled People. We, as members of AbleOTUK, a network of occupational therapists with lived experience of disability, write to express our deep concerns regarding the recent announcement by Liz Kendall, Secretary …

Fellow OTs please sign this open letter from the wonderful @AbleOTUK opposing disability benefit cuts 💚

affinot.co.uk/2025/03/21/o...

#AbleOTUK #DisabilityRights #CoProductionNow

I often feel as an OT that I can’t do anything for patients anymore.

I’m starting to think the most beneficial thing is robust assessments which provide direct evidence for disability benefits.

But then I remember no one reads our OT assessments ☹️🙃

But in all seriousness, I’m an OT in deaf mental health. I’m training to be a British Sign Language (BSL) interpreter and yet I have hEDS & my hands/arms hurt.
My hands/wrists are so bendy that I’m injuring them by using BSL.

Closing Long Covid clinics is an act of evil to the victims of the pandemic. How dare they abandon these disabled people, each humans with value, no human is disposable

Does this job role align with our values as a profession?

I want to help people get as much access as possible. Not look for (or make up) ways to cut it.

So why am I seeing loads of anecdotal evidence online of OTs who are PIP advisors doing assessments and taking away support from disabled people?

🤔

If you’re unwell, test and stay away from vulnerable people, old people, children and disabled people.

I had 4 days of 40°c fever 🥵

Photo of a flu test. It is an LFT and positive for Flu B

I caught Influenza B. I don’t know where but it has been like Covid on steroids & I thought Covid was bad (all 7 times I’ve had it!)

I had the flu vaccine and feel like if I didn’t have it I’d be dead.

I bought a test online for £5 mainly because I was worried about bird flu!

My brother reminded me that not only did we go to college dressed like that, there was the kinky day parade where everyone walked through town dressed like that.

One year the Queen was in town and they tried to be in photos 😬

I just remembered when I was in 6th form college in 2001, we had “kinky day” every year where everyone (16-18yr old) would come to college in kinky clothing, bondage, one person came naked wrapped in cling film. Some men dressed up as women.

A little bit horrified now

Teenagers mocked by nurses at Skye House children's psychiatric unit A BBC investigation finds some nurses were verbally abusive and cruel towards unwell teenagers.

Don’t blame the patients, it’s staff culture and frankly people who are cruel and abusive.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

We had our first specialist Deaf mental health OT meet up online today! We were from all over England, and one from Ireland too 🤟🏻

Fantastic opportunity
Deaf service
Job vacancy
Occupational therapy
Support Time Recovery Worker
Apply today
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Call for Oxevision cameras to be banned in mental health patients' bedrooms Former mental health patients are worried camera surveillance is being used without explicit consent.

Oxevision technology harms patients:

www.bbc.com/news/article...

I hate the other place. I’m here now, hello!

Photo of a black and white tuxedo cat loafing looking happy on a peach coloured soft blanket. The cat is outside and there is brick behind

Photo of a staff notice board where you can only see a photo of a black and white tuxedo cat. The cat is called Jessie/2TAS and role is “therapy cat”.

Recently I visited a mental health hospital which has a cat at the front door welcoming people. The cat has a badge and official role of “therapy cat”.

I think that’s brilliant. What do you think?

Gregg Wallace accused of asking BSL translator to sign ‘big boobs’, ‘sexy bum’ Audience member who was at BBC live show claims MasterChef presenter was ‘disrespectful’ to interpreter

TW sexual harassment

Respect BSL interpreters. Access isn’t a joke, BSL isn’t a joke. Deaf people aren’t a joke.

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

One day we will have spaces for mental health support which aren’t restrictive and people feel safe around Christmas decorations.

When I worked on a mental health ward, here’s what Christmas tree 🎄 decorations were banned:

- fairy lights
- tinsel
- glass
- some plastic ornaments
- anything with wire
- some metal ornaments
- string

Basically paper chains were our friend & a tree with built in lights 🙂

NHS England » Accessible Information Standard Making health and social care information accessible From 1 August 2016 onwards, all organisations that provide NHS care and/or publicly-funded adult social care are legally required to follow the Acc...

Are you a health professional?
Are you aware of the Accessible Information Standard?

It seems most professionals I meet in my role have never heard of the legal duty to make healthcare accessible:

www.england.nhs.uk/about/equali...

Add me!

Photo of a wall with an NHS sign. The sign says “East London”. Under the clinic is called “Health E1”.

No way is this health centre called “Health E1”!

I need to work somewhere with a pun in the name.

So I joined, how can I find all my connections from the other place? #OccupationalTherapist