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The OT Show & Care Show Have Teamed Up to Bring You The Virtual Care Festival Care professionals in a safe space. The Virtual Care Festival will run like an actual event but from the comfort, safety and convenience of your own living room. Just like a conference centre, you’ll be able to move around and talk to your colleagues like you would at any face-to-face event. This virtual space is split up into 4 areas for easy navigation. The Entrance Lobby – this is where the journey starts with easy navigation to all the theatres, exhibition hall, and a help desk for advice. Exhibition Hall – Where you can explore the latest brands, technologies and engage with the exhibitors. This virtual space allows you to have face-to-face conversations with the best companies in the industry. Visitors can explore over 50 interactive leading suppliers, showcasing different products and services for all their organisation needs, such as; Arjo, CareLineLive, CoolCare, Opera Care, Recrutive, Sumed, Vileda Professional, My Learning Cloud Limited, Essex County Council, AKW, Closomat, Hill-Rom, Accora Limited, OSKA, CareLineLive, Medequip and Opera Care. Networking Lounge – Networking opportunities amongst peers and new acquaintances. A place to meet attendees, speakers, and other exhibitors. The Theatres – Where the learning takes place. 5 theatres with worldrenowned speakers to gain over 60 hrs of CPD engagement.
The OT Show and Care Show will be running the UK’s first Virtual Care Festival on the 25th – 26th of November 2020. The festival will be a great opportunity to gain CPD through lectures and seminars, presented by our esteemed speakers from the industry, network with colleagues, and meet your favourite exhibitors. 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 will be 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 25th and 26th 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.
WHY THE VIRTUAL CARE FESTIVAL? At the beginning of August, The OT Show conducted a survey to over 22’000 of OT professionals to see 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 online webinars would be the most beneficial under the current circumstances. 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 both our community of Occupational Therapy professionals and their patients alike. We understand that a great deal of our audience work hard to support and improve the lives of vulnerable people, therefore, we felt it irresponsible to try and run an event in a live setting.
HOW WILL IT LOOK? As a result of COVID-19, a number of physical event spaces have been turned into hospitals. Amongst these are the NEC Birmingham and ExCel London where Care Show and The OT show are run from. Alongside this, physical events have been unable to continue as a result of the rise in cases and possibility of a second wave. However, there has never been a more important time to provide an opportunity for OT and
SPEAKERS To provide an event that will benefit the education and learning of our community we have talks from some of the top names in the industry, some of which have provided excellent presentations at our live events in the past. Among these are Dr. Michael Iwama, Dean at MGH Institute of Health Professions, Rt Hon Sir Norman Lamb, Former MP, Chair of the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and Chair of the Children’s and Young People’s Mental Health Coalition, Michael Mandelstam, Legal training in social and health care at Michael Mandelstam Ltd, Debbie Ivanova, Deputy Chief Inspector (DCI) of Adult Social Care at CQC and Nadra Ahmed OBE, Chairman of NCA. The Virtual Care Festival will take place on Wednesday 25th and Thursday 26th November 2020 between 09:00 – 17:00. Information on joining the event will be made available upon registering via email. Secure your free place at: https://www.careshow.co.uk/thecarerUK
Dorset Leader of Multi-Award-Winning Learning Programmes Shortlisted For Care Champion Award Alison Innes-Farquhar, former Director of People Development and Engagement, before her retirement in June 2020 at care provider HC-One, has been shortlisted as a finalist in the Care Champion category at the prestigious National Care Awards 2020. The shortlisting follows an impressive and successful career spanning 30 years in the health and social care, during which Alison worked for the NHS, a number of health and social care companies and ran her own company project managing multi-award-winning learning programmes for social care providers. Prior to her retirement this year, Alison was the Director of People Development and Engagement at HC-One for nine years. Alison joined HC-One in 2011, as part of a team of six led by HC-
One’s founder Dr Chai Patel CBE FRCP. Dr Patel is a doctor, entrepreneur and philanthropist, and led the team to form HC-One, rescuing over 200 care homes following the collapse of Southern Cross. Alison was involved in all aspects of HC-One’s conception, early growth and development, including the company name, values, brand, organisational structure and recruitment. Whilst Alison was in her role at HC-One, she led the people to function with responsibility for the design and delivery of people development projects and oversaw Colleague engagement initiatives. The National Care Awards 2020 marks 22 years of celebrating the very best people working in the care sector and those who go above and beyond to provide consistent exceptional care. The National Care Awards ceremony will be taking place virtually this year on Wednesday 25th November, when the winners will be announced. Sir David Behan CBE, HC-One’s Non-Executive Chairman, said: “We are delighted to have eleven HC-One finalists chosen by the judging panels for the National Care Awards, National Dementia Care Awards, Care Heroes Awards, Great British Care Awards and The
Northern Echo County Durham Together Awards this year. This is an amazing achievement, and I am so proud of our finalists. Alison has made an exceptional contribution to the lives of Residents and Colleagues during her career at HC-One. We wish her a well-deserved retirement. Dr Chai Patel CBE FRCP, Founder of HC-One, who nominated Alison for the award, said: “Alison has made an unparalleled contribution to the development and learning of Colleagues in social care. She has been a life-long pioneering champion in every sense of the words. She embraced technology, fearlessly fought hard to get budgets and developed great passionate teams who single-mindedly broke down the barriers to learning and opened up possibilities for thousands of her Colleagues.” Alison is one of eleven HC-One finalists that have been shortlisted in the National Care Awards, National Dementia Care Awards, Great British Care Awards, The Northern Echo County Durham Together Awards and the Care Heroes Awards 2020 across a variety of award categories.
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