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WELCOMING THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS!

The Occupational Therapy Show team is delighted to announce that the professional body for occupational therapy, the Royal College of Occupational Therapists (RCOT), will be opening The Occupational Therapy Show 2018. Julia Scott, Chief Executive of RCOT will deliver the opening speech in the OT Keynote Theatre, on Wednesday 21st November at 9:15am, Hall 9 and 10 NEC, Birmingham.

The Occupational Therapy Show, in its sixth year this year, is the UKs largest OT dedicated show. It is a key date in all OT professionals’ diaries and welcomes over 4,700 visitors over two days. Delegates will benefit from completely free access to 80+ hours of CPD, as well as the opportunity to view all the latest innovations from over 270 OT centred suppliers.

Chief Executive of RCOT, Julia Scott says:

“We’re looking forward to opening The Occupational Therapy Show 2018 and meeting fellow professionals to talk about all the latest insights and developments in occupational therapy.”

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WHAT THEY SAY

The whole concept of The Occupational Therapy Show is exactly how professional health conferences ought to be. I love how inclusive the event is – there is no registration fee. Other conferences are nauseating and hoity-toity. The essence of occupational therapy is in the hands of the clinician – they are the centre of our concerns and we can learn through them – that’s what I associate with The Occupational Therapy Show. That’s why I want to be a part of it and I come back every time I can. Two years ago the show was so much smaller than what it is today – when I see all the people it just tells me that it has grown so much in popularity – there are more vendors now too, it’s huge!

Professor Michael Iwama
We had a really good influx of visitors to the stand following our workshop which was fantastic. We’ve seen a varied range of people coming through, and all are really interested in the new add-on products. It’s important that our customers can see us with new innovations to offer that they may not have realised we do. You can go to exhibitions with the general public but you just don’t get anything back from it – for us this is now the best place to show new products to OTs.

Libby Strutt, PR Executive
Stannah
It is fantastic to offer a day or two for OTs to come to an event like this. We must see at least 500 OTs on our stand each day – I mean you can see it now, lots of people looking around and lots of conversations. You get great feedback from the visitors too. They can talk about product design and about the challenges they have within their own environments which allows us to go off and innovate on what we do or to react based on their comments. It’s a great lead-generator opportunity for us. It makes a lot of sense!

James Dadd, Marketing Director
AKW