Becky Rutter

Our second year OT students enjoyed learning about posture and seating today. Thank you @Wee_Little_Isla from @LincolnshireCC for a very informative session

It’s Dementia Action Week. What are you doing to make others aware? What would you pledge? Why not Join Dementia Research. All welcome over the age of 18. Register and take part in studies, no obligation. joindementiaresearch.nihr.ac.uk

@RebR333 and @GeorginaSpray are continuing to work explore the value of occupation on their role emerging placement at Hill Holt Wood with different service users, planing a sensory garden, exploring bluebell wood, building a plantar and playing Viking chess

@AHPs4PH @mentalhealth I encourage my yoga students to balance on tip toes or one one leg when brushing teeth

During #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek, @mentalhealth recommends seizing everyday moments for movement, even while waiting for the kettle to boil! 💃 What other moments can you think of to incorporate movement into your day? #MomentsForMovement

Join us, Abasiama & @Becca__OT, OT students from @UOL_OT, for #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek! This year’s theme is #movement 🚴‍♀️. Let's raise awareness, reduce stigma, and prioritise mental well-being together. 😊 #OTTakeover

@TashaLaming @CduffDuff @LPFTResearch Congratulations!! AHPs leading research is so needed 🙌

Framing this one! So privileged to be a part of this important research project. @CduffDuff @LPFTResearch

Well done @CharWesson!! Or rather Dr Charlotte 👩🏻‍🎓👩🏻‍🎓👩🏻‍🎓

To continue our series of role emerging placement posts, @RebR333 and Georgie are at Hill Holt Wood on their placement. A social enterprise; it focuses on changing people's lives within a sustainable, environmental setting.

@trashalou @Liz_ORiordan Once they are over a year old though you don’t feed them with the same frequency, maybe a couple of times a day when they are around 2? I agree with you that women need more practical support to breastfeed, it is really hard when it’s just down to you.

@RebR333 @Liz_ORiordan Because so many women are busy trying to keep everything else afloat, drop baby at nursery at 0730, work an 8 hr day, feed family, bedtime routine, household paperwork, housework. As we know breastfeeding takes time, energy and space. Society in the UK does not value mothering.

The truth about breast-feeding and breast cancer Is it true that 1 in 20 breast cancers could be prevented by breast feeding? This was a statement lifted from the Lancet Breast Cancer Commission Report published yesterday - but it’s a global estimate that assumes EVERY woman in EVERY country has an average of 6 children and breastfeeds them for 1-2 years. The facts - breastfeeding one child for 12 months reduces your lifetime risk of breast cancer by 4% That’s a drop from 17% to 16.4% - so the actual impact is small. The Report wants to increase breast-feeding education and support globally as en masse this will reduce the numbers of breast cancer - but you don’t need to feel guilty if you didn’t breastfeed for that long or didn’t have children If you want to find out your own individual risk of breast cancer, check out the iPrevent tool - iprevent.net.au Thanks to @CuiWanda @TheLancet @BreastCancerNow

@TashaLaming A local social enterprise which delivers ecotherapy and the green model of care in an outdoor setting 🌳 luckily have wellies!

@RebR333 Good luck! Where are you off to?

Placement starts today! Really looking forward to it 😎

This is how it should be for trees. Such a huge asset to our environment and deserving of protection. Where I live oak, sycamore and elder have been felled as houses have been built too close to them and of course, eventually the trees impact the houses.

@DrNeenaJha @trishgreenhalgh I thought GP surgeries were effectively private businesses run by the GP Partners? If so, the GPs running the practice make the decisions on the staff. This needs to be taken up with your professional body, who is standing up for patients in all this?

“We’re creating PAs to support NOT replace GPs” IS A COMPLETE LIE! The practice I locum in have now replaced me with a PA 😞 I’ve been a GP for 10 years & can’t get work?! My GP colleagues CANNOT GET work! We ARE being replaced, by significantly less qualified people?!

Today we launch our Facebook page research LPFT @LPFTNHS @NIHRCRNEastMids @NIHRtakepart @beatdementia @phull_jaspreet to showcase the wonderful work we are involved in and the many opportunities this brings to others

We will be rejecting the separate pay arrangement for nurses in the Government’s consultation and want to represent your views in the consultation. ➡️ Find out more about how you can share your thoughts: loom.ly/bbiTiYc @RCOT__Karin

@StudentOTs OT brings a different view of health and well-being, prioritises occupation and looks holistically at multiple factors around an individual. An OTs choice of outcome measures would therefore be different and benefit research through person centred practice.

Why should occupational therapists be involved in research?

FUNDING: We're pleased to announce an open, competitive call for #PhD funding! Up to 3 full-time awards available, starting in Autumn 2024 at an #EastMidlands university. PhDs should align with @ARC_EM's portfolio of applied research. Find out more: 🔗bit.ly/3U2WbNd

#OTWeek23 Day 2 from our fab LCH Stroke Team; Occupations are the things we need and want to do in life, they give our lives meaning. Occupations are good for our mental and physical health. As part of OT Week, we sparked conversation for what our own occupations mean to us

Occupations are the things we do that are important to us. Occupational Therapists ensure we can do the things that make us live, not just survive. #OTweek23