Virtual Care Festival The OT Show and Care Show have teamed up this year to bring you the Virtual Care Festival
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he OT Show and Care Show will be running the UK’s first Virtual Care Festival on 25 – 26 November 2020. The festival will be a great opportunity to gain CPD through lectures and seminars presented by our world-renowned industry speakers, network with colleagues, and meet your favourite suppliers. In a time where face-to-face learning for health and care professionals is restricted, there still needs to be a space where professionals can network, learn and explore the latest innovations in the industry. The Virtual Care Festival is a place where OT professionals can do this with ease. Today, audiences expect more. Not death by PowerPoint or disruptive phone calls, but a tangible online experience that is human, interactive, and engaging. The Virtual Care Festival 2020 will run on 25-26 November. The event will be the largest digital gathering of occupational therapists and decision-makers working in social and private care, both domiciliary and residential, in the UK. At the beginning of August, The OT Show conducted a survey to over 22,000 OT professionals to find out what could be done to help with their continued learning and development in the absence of face-to-face events. Out of those 22,000, a stunning 84% said they were actively seeking some form of online engagement to fill the gap. To fulfil the needs of our OT community, we have designed the Virtual Care Festival. Although the live event can’t go ahead this year, we wanted to organise an event that was safe for our community of occupational therapy professionals. We understand that a great deal of our visitors work hard to support and improve the lives of vulnerable people, therefore, we felt it irresponsible to try and run a live event in 2020.
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