2021 : An outstanding year in NUMBERS
While the impact of COVID-19 has continued to affect us all and our work throughout 2021 , we are delighted to report that we have nonetheless achieved a huge amount on your behalf , regardless of the pandemic . Here are just some of the highlights from 2021 , the numbers giving you facts and figures of what an incredible impact we have had .
2,834 learners commenced RCOT accredited pre-registration occupational therapy programmes
Regions ran
44 virtual events
We responded to
2,148 professional enquiries from members
1,720 graduates from pre-registration occupational therapy programmes across the four nations
8,853 downloads of the Career Development Framework
Social media reach : 30,827 Facebook fans , 15,825 LinkedIn followers and 37,301 Twitter followers * figures correct as of 30 November 2021
Our media reach : 4,300 articles covering the work occupational therapists are doing in relation to COVID-19 ;
10 mentions of RCOT on BBC1 Northern Ireland ;
415 pieces of coverage in Scotland , including in the Scottish Herald and The Scotsman ; 287 pieces of coverage in Wales , including on BBC1 Wales and the National ; 208 pieces of coverage in Northern Ireland , including in the Belfast Telegraph , Irish News and the Daily Mirror Northern Ireland
Over 35,000 members received our monthly best practice magazine OTnews and our monthly e-newsletter Highlight
We achieved a social media reach of 8.4 million for # OTWeek2021 which is a 100 % increase on 2020 , plus a 9 million reach for # OTsForEquity , which is a 38 % increase on the 2020 campaign hashtag . Our campaign animation received over 116,000 views in the week
Annual conference : 1,660 registered delegates ,
99 sessions , with 20,367 unique session views ,
18,167 unique views of the 48 posters , 910 views of the 3 wellbeing sessions ,
3,158 connections made via requests and 1,777 clicks on the 7 sponsors pages
Our virtual Casson lecture , delivered by Dr Anita Atwal , was watched by
733 people
Specialist sections hosted
91 events and published
73 e-newsletters
We undertook 15
accreditation events , which considered 14 new preregistration programmes and 6 re-accreditations
18 awards were given this year : 4 Fellowships , 1 Honorary Fellowship , 3 Merit Awards , 5 RCOT Annual Awards for Learning , Development and Research , 3 Research Foundation Grants , 1 Early Researcher Prize ( pre-registration ) and 1 Early Researcher Award ( post-registration )
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