Innovation Hub
Our innovation hub is a networking space for the occupational therapy workforce to learn together about leading change.
On 29 April 2024, we launch our digital innovation hub community where members can share innovations alongside searching our database of real-world occupational therapy focused changes and improvements. To become one of our early adopters of the innovation hub community, simply share a challenge that needs addressing, change idea or completed project with us by submitting your improvement journey. It takes between 15-30 minutes to answer some questions about your current service challenges and improvement ideas. You only need to answer the questions that feel appropriate to your real-world change idea or project.
We welcome submissions from all members of the occupational therapy workforce including those who support pre-registration education programmes, learners, support workers and those who manage and commission occupational therapy services.
Once we’ve received your submission, we will be in touch with you to share information on joining the innovation hub community. If you would like your change idea to be included on the real-world occupational therapy focused change database, we will use your submitted information to create a database entry. The benefits of sharing your change ideas with us and the innovation hub community includes:
- networking with others and receiving feedback on your ideas
- extending the reach of your work so that other OT services can adopt and scale.
We’re passionate about becoming a data informed organisation that uses member insight to drive decision making. In addition to networking and sharing your ideas with the OT workforce, we also use both quantitative and qualitative data analysis methods to study your anonymised submissions. This helps us better understand:
- the current problems OT change makers are working to address
- trends in solutions being tested
- barriers change makers facing in practice and the support they require to keep projects progressing.
We can then use this anonymised insight to make better decisions about the support we can offer occupational therapy change makers. An example of this is our new pilot innovation seed fund due to launch in April 2024.