The results of an informal inquiry into non-practising occupational therapists are presented. The inquiry was a postal one, conducted in the County of Avon and neighbouring areas; it aimed to find people who might be prepared to return to occupational therapy and to elicit the conditions they would need to facilitate that return.
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