Occupational Therapist, Disabled Activist, Author, PhD Candidate
Weโve all received the email notification weโve been dreading: It is re-registration time for Health Care Professions Councilโs (HCPC) registrants and a stressful time for those who have been called for audit.ย What you will have noticed if youโve already reregistered that there has been some additional equality monitoring information this time round and Iโฆ Continue reading HCPC Re-registration Time: Whatโs new, and whatโs not?
A few weeks, ago I wrote about the simple changes that can be made within healthcare to reduce everyday ableism I also linked this to previous blogs about systemic ableism. Therefore, this blog isnโt going to be anything new, itโs just going to hopefully link everything together.ย As said before, sometimes noticing ableism isnโt easy,โฆ Continue reading Ableism on Micro, Meso and Macro Levels Within Healthcareย
Often when we talk about ableism we talk about it being systemic, integrated within the systems we work in on micro, meso and macro levels. It important to understand this and see the bigger picture, and how important it is that we act acs anti-ableist allies. Yet, sometimes looking at this bigger picture can beโฆ Continue reading Do You Notice Ableism Around You?
Systemic ableism itโs a fairly big concept. For those of us who donโt eat, sleep and breathe disability activism like myself the idea of ableism being perpetuated can be hard to understand. But to act as anti-ableist allies, we must understand this concept to be able to recognise and act upon this. But, how doโฆ Continue reading Can โCompromisesโ in an Integrated Care System Perpetuate Ableism?
