• Disability Consultancy
• Strategic and operational planning for service development
• Independent opinions for complaint management
• Interim management
• Supervision and Mentoring services
• Bespoke training for staff

A tailor made service for your individual needs

For example, whether you need to set up a new OT service, a facilitated away day or a multi-disciplinary review we have the right advisor for the job. We will agree specific terms of reference to meet your goals. Service reviews can evaluate your current state and provide analysis and options for development to meet your priorities and provide support for implementation.

Expert advice to help you implement the government’s modernisation agenda

In the current healthcare climate the NHS and local authorities are constantly evolving and changing to meet patients’ needs. The Consultancy Service can help you respond to modernisation in these specific areas:

• Workshops to deal with waiting lists and access
• Lean thinking and new ways of working
• Promotional skills to get your service commissioned
• Marketing your service to commissioners
• Facilitated away-days to address service quality e.g. looking at outcomes, user involvement
• Advice on optimising performance and achieving clinical excellence

We have experience working with clients covering a wide variety of Health and Social Care organisations, in public, private, commercial and voluntary sectors.

Other types of work we have undertaken:

• Intermediate care review
• Review of Integration of services
• Scoping exercise for development of new service
• Development and implementation of a wheelchair course
• Local Special Educational Needs study days
• Critical Friend for Service Commissioners
• Improving Access and waiting times for children’s services
• Adaptations courses for Housing associations.

The Consultancy Service client list includes:

• States of Guernsey Health and Social Services Board
• The Breyer Group
• University College London Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
• City and Hackney PCT
• Newport Local Health Board
• Lord Mayor Treloar College
• Transport for London
• London Borough of Brent
• City & County of Swansea
• Staffordshire Health Services
• Hampshire PCT/CC

To find out more contact:
Karin Jasinska
COT Consultancy Service Manager
Karin.Jasinska@cot.co.uk
Telephone 020 7450 2342