A Model for Rotation of Staff from a Health Authority into a Social Services Department

Abstract

Following the DHSS paper of 1985, ‘Occupational Therapy Service, National Health Service and Local Authority Social Services’,¹ which was circulated with the intention of promoting closer working relationships between staff working in health authorities and social services departments, the District Occupational Therapist of Wolverhampton Health Authority and the Head Occupational Therapist of Wolverhampton Social Services resolved to develop closer liaison between their two departments. The result of their resolve was the development of a scheme whereby staff could rotate between the two departments; a précis of the guidelines set out to introduce the scheme is given in this article.