Are Norms the Key to Manpower Planning?

Abstract

Occupational therapy managers have relied on the College's document entitled Recommended Minimum Standards for Occupational Therapy Staff: Patient Ratios for more than a decade. Trent Region District Occupational Therapists' Group reviewed this document and agreed to formulate proposals for its update. This article describes the work of a project team who collaborated with regional manpower colleagues and the region's mental health occupational therapy services staff in an endeavour to establish norms, formulae or other means of manpower planning.