the exceptions have been people who live #TooRurally or with multi-pathologies, who don't sit neatly into #PathwaysOfCare.
The #AHPs are then left with managing #Rehab in a complex situation, with few resources & (now) diminished skills in pure #Rehabilitation...
It's not just the patients who will need rehab. The junior clinicians will need #FastTrack learning in managing the skills of #Rehab in non- Acute setting.
Senior #AHPs will need to disentangle from the drive to be part of #AcuteServicesByProxy & resume Treating patients.
See thread @RachelBotell.

#Rehabilitation is a Significant role of #OccupationalTherapists & #physiotherapists, the emphasis now changes to exploring the dynamics in a more long-term model, ideally suited to #Community settings.
And @runnermandoc: about re-setting the whole dynamic.
From pandemics grow new models of treatment. #Acute services have had to think/act on the run. #Community services have luxury of (a little) time to think. Our patients need the skills #AHPs in the community have, al beit...
may not have utilised in such extremes, or numbers.
It will be a time of learning for all #Therapists. It may be an opportunity to truly emphasise the significance & role of #ComunityMDTs in primary care, & promote #SocialCare in the dynamic.
The #PathwaysOfCare will emerge from the initial f2f interactions with early COVID patients & will shape patterns of intervention. #Research will need to be undertaken on small cohorts, in quick snap shots & collated quickly for best practice to be established.
@SuzanneRastrick is anyone undertaking such work? Fully appreciate that emphasis is on #Acute need but the next #PerfectStorm for #Rehabilitation is also on the horizon.
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