Share best practices with your peers and get recognised for innovative ideas!

The deadline for poster submissions is Friday 25 October 2024

The Poster Zone 2024 provides an opportunity for individuals and teams within the OT profession to share best practice and network with colleagues from across the UK. This year's Poster Zone will be located on the exhibition floor allowing the posters to be viewed by the thousands of attendees as they explore the event and will display posters submitted by OT professionals from NHS Trusts, private health care, local authorities and many more, ensuring diversity in the topics presented.

Entries will be accepted from all sectors of OT irrespective of career level or place of work including OT professionals from NHS Trusts, Mental Health Trusts, private health care, prisons, and care homes, plus many more. We will also welcome a limited number of industry colleague applications. The posters will showcase work, both completed and on-going.

How To Enter

The presenting categories for 2024 will be:

Housing
Mental Health
Work
Contemporary Practice
Neurology
Paediatric

Poster entries are open to all sectors of occupational therapy, regardless of your career level or place of work. Posters can display work that is completed or on-going. Posters can also include topics outside of these categories should you feel the topic is valuable to the audience.

Within each category, the abstracts will be reviewed using the following criteria:

The positive impact of the project/innovation on Occupational Therapy practice and/or patient care - supported by qualitative or quantitative evidence or published literature
The quality of the innovation and/or research within Occupational Therapy practice
The potential application of the project/innovation to other areas or settings
The extent the project enhances the OT role and/or collaboration across the sectors

How to submit your entry

Step-by-step Guide

Step 1.

To assist you with the production of your Poster Zone submission, please see the guidance document for your planning purposes.

Download the Guidance Document

Step 2.

To submit your abstract please download the submission form and complete and send your entry to:

otshow@closerstillmedia.com

Submission deadline is Friday 25 October 2024

Download the Submission Form

Step 3.

If your abstract submission is successful, we have put together a template that you are free to use if you wish. Please note that this is not a mandatory template and creativity, is of course welcomed!

But remember posters should be portrait in design.

Download the Example Template

Accepted Posters will be displayed over the two days in the Poster Zone.

Dedicated viewing times are for 90 minutes, and each poster will have the opportunity to be displayed for the whole day of the presentation. Presenters are asked to be present for the duration of the 90-minute session for which they are selected.