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"Help for my son"

About: Bromley Healthcare / Occupational Therapy for Children

(as a parent/guardian),

My son is 4 and has cerebral palsy. He is a bright young boy and about to start in a mainstream primary school. He has some awkwardness and weakness in his hands and would benefit from occupational therapy. We have had an assessment and it is clear that he needs support with this. Especially now getting to the stage where he is about to embark on his journey of learning to write, which will be an important skill to him throughout his life. He will need 1-1 help and extra equipment like pencil grips etc. Also help with learning how to do up and undo buttons, using scissors and so on. And yet I am told that there aren't enough OT staff to provide him with any help. There's not enough staff and there's not enough funding. What are parents meant to do in this situation? There must be hundreds of parents like us that want the best for their children and are being denied help.

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Response from Amanda Mayo, Head of Integrated Care - Bromley ICN, Operations Directorate, Bromley Healthcare 6 years ago
Amanda Mayo
Head of Integrated Care - Bromley ICN, Operations Directorate,
Bromley Healthcare

My role is provide professional support to all nurses within Bromley Healthcare and to ensure services we provide are of the highest quality

Submitted on 16/06/2017 at 17:31
Published on Care Opinion at 18:41


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Thank you for your posting. I am very sorry that you have had this experience.

I would be really grateful if you could email me directly your sons name and date of birth so that I can speak to the children's OT team directly?

My email address is Amanda.mayo@bromleyhealthcare-cic.nhs.uk

Many thanks

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Response from Amanda Mayo, Head of Integrated Care - Bromley ICN, Operations Directorate, Bromley Healthcare 6 years ago
Amanda Mayo
Head of Integrated Care - Bromley ICN, Operations Directorate,
Bromley Healthcare

My role is provide professional support to all nurses within Bromley Healthcare and to ensure services we provide are of the highest quality

Submitted on 19/06/2017 at 17:35
Published on Care Opinion on 20/06/2017 at 09:25


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Thankyou DRoach, for getting intouch with me via my email address above.

You have said that our OT has since been intouch with you and will provide you with more support and information.

I hope this helps your son.

Kind regards

Amanda

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