Ilott, IreneFaulconbridge, GwawrPettigrew, Judith2025-08-072025-08-07UKAHN Bulletin: UK Association for the History of Nursing, 2023, 11 (1)https://doi.org/10.34961/researchrepository-ul.25204493https://researchrepository.ul.ie/handle/10344/13355Occupational therapy started at Cardiff City Mental Hospital in 1930, led by Sister Patricia Sunderland, a registered mental nurse and occupational therapist. This is noteworthy because neither Wales, nor Sunderland, have been recognised as pioneers of occupational therapy before. Sunderland’s description of a hospital wide service for in- and out-patients at Cardiff is one of the first accounts written by an occupational therapist.[1] Research to date indicates that Sunderland was the first Irish person to use the title and to write about occupational therapy in Wales.[2]enhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/Patricia Sunderlandoccupational therapymental health nursepioneerHealth sciencesArticlehttps://bulletin.ukahn.org/patricia-sunderland-an-irish-registered-mental-nurse-and-pioneer-of-occupational-therapy/(4) Quality Education