WFOT: Survey on Assistive Technology

The World Federation of Occupational Therapists (WFOT) is undertaking a survey of occupational therapy practitioners about the access and use of Assistive Technology. The responses will inform WFOT’s engagement strategy with the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Global Cooperation on Assistive Technology (GATE) project and the formulation of resources to support occupational therapy education, practice and research.

The survey can be accessed here https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/WFOTAT2017

Your feedback and participation would be greatly appreciated by the 1st October 2017.

EFPC Webinar: WHO Integrated health services delivery transformations for people-centered health systems

The European Forum for Primary Care invites for their next webinar 19 September 2017 at 12:30 CET.

In this webinar you will get the chance to hear inputs from Hans Kluge, Director of the Division of Health Systems and Public Health at WHO Europe,where he will talk about the WHO European Centre for Primary Health Care (WECPHC) and its’ support to integrated health services delivery transformations for people.

To register for free, send an e-mail to info@euprimarycare.org or visit the EFPC´s website.
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Joint statement on Mental Health

The Executive Committee of COTEC is very pleased to have signed the joint statement on Mental Health for the EU Health Policy Forum with 20 other signatories.

The European Framework for Action on Mental Health and Wellbeing, which gathered together the lessons learned during the Joint Action, provides a roadmap for improving and promoting mental health. The 20 signatories to this joint-statement would like to see a concerted effort to follow on from the Joint Action and Framework, and gather a broad coalition of organisations who wish to support the improvement of mental health through European policies with a specific focus on four areas:

The signatories urge the European Institutions to:

  1. Ensure parity of esteem, the principle by which mental health must be given equal priority to physical health.
  2. Take a life-course approach to mental health.
  3. Pay stronger attention to mental health in the workplace, because – while occupational health and safety policies and legislation have overwhelmingly focused on physical risk factors and physical injury, poor performance due to mental health issues is one of the biggest problems in the modern workplace.
  4. Improve mental health treatment in primary care

 

Read the full statement here

A multi-disciplinary consensus on Mental Health in Europe

In all European countries the delivery of mental health activities relies on the cooperation of multiple staff groups in order to offer interventions that address the many psycho-social, economic and biological challenges affecting mental wellbeing and mental disorders. Such challenges are particularly prominent at a time of insecurity, austerity, budget cuts and migration. Multi-disciplinary working is therefore essential, since it cannot be expected that any discipline has the competencies or resources to offer a comprehensive range of interventions.

Representatives of European Mental Health Workforce Associations welcome the opportunity to work in partnership towards an effective and influential mental health workforce in Europe, together with the WHO Regional Office for Europe.

The Council of Occupational Therapy for the European Countries, is committed to work with:

on the following aims

  • Mapping the status of the mental health workforce in the European Region
  • Planning shared activities to improve mental health services across Europe
  • Advocating for better policy and practice
  • Exploring possibilities to improve effective ways of working of mental health staff
  • Considering joint actions in response to emergencies.

Read the full consensus statement here:  Consensus Statement: Working together towards an effective and influential mental health workforce in Europe Link

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