03 November 2020
It’s World Occupational Therapy Week! Your chance to get an insight into the amazing work that Occupational Therapists (OTs) do and how they support people in need. If you've ever wanted to become an OT, now is your chance to find out what it can be like! Join our OTs Deb, Kim, Lauren, and Julia as they go about their days.
The morning started with a training session with Accora on their range of chairs on our current stock as well as their new range of chairs. Myself, Lauren the OT, Tracey the OTA (Occupational Therapy Assistant) and Jamie our specials tech spent the morning reviews all aspects of the chairs. The training was a great way to meet our local reps and keep up to date with the change to our contract stock chair as well as chairs that come through on specials.
Myself and Tracey spent the rest of the morning helping prescribers with their queries via email and on the phone. One prescriber phoned in the morning to see if they could come for a visit to review an item on specials. It’s lovely when we can meet prescribers face to face and help them with finding equipment to meet the needs of their client. This particularly prescriber was after a supportive backrest for a shower chair. Tracey worked with the prescriber to review our specials and core stock to help them come up with a solution.
After lunch it was time to look at the specials orders, this is what we call gatekeeping. This time is spent reviewing order and making sure there are no alternatives we can offer the prescriber from our core stock. Myself and Tracey work together by uploading equipment onto Iris daily so we know what alternative stock may be available for our prescribers. It’s great fun working with such a vast range of equipment, there is always something new to explore!
In the afternoon I had a call with a rep for Direct healthcare group, this was a meet and greet as well as a very informative session on updates to the equipment. It’s very useful getting to know the reps as well as understanding changes to equipment on core stock which we can then pass on to the depot and our prescribers.
Myself and Tracey love our busy working day, every day is different and it’s a pleasure helping our lovely prescribers and their clients with any queries.
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