IFM Healthcare News
Maria J Grant
Chair, Information for the Management of Healthcare
(IFMH)
Salford Centre for Nursing, Midwifery and Collaborative Research
University of Salford
Email:
Welcome to…
Kath Wright, NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination
(Email: Tel: 01904 321460) who has been
co-opted to the IFMH committee to take forward the roles of IFMH
Treasurer and Membership Secretary. Kath takes over these posts from
Julie Glanville, who has kindly agreed to remain a corresponding
member of the IFMH committee.
CPD Opportunities
There will shortly be a vacancy for
Joint Inform Editor on the IFMH Committee. The post is shared with at
least one other person, and the main
responsibility involves coordinating the collection of materials for
the IFMH newsletter Inform. Inform is published three times a year,
with the majority of materials coming from regular contributors and
study day presenters. No previous experience is required and
the post provides an excellent opportunity to develop new skills, and
to meet with like-minded professionals in the area of health
information management. If you would like to find out more about what
is practically involved, please email me at or
call me on 0161 295 6423.
VSO
Sponsorship
IFMH is to sponsor Anita Pearson
(Disabilities Social Worker) and Machteld Olthof
(Physiotherapist/Occupational Therapist), VSO volunteers, in the
production of a training manual for a community based disability
rehabilitation project. Anita and Machteld will be based in Namibia
and the manual will be used to structure and organise volunteer
training. Further details of the project and reports from Anita and
Machteld will appear on the IFMH web site (http://www.ifmh.org.uk/)
and in forthcoming editions of Inform.
Date for Your Diary
November 2005
The next IFMH study day will be a joint
event organised in association with Libraries for Nursing. Further
details will be distributed shortly. To avoid missing them, please
join the IFMH members’ discussion list at
http://www.ifmh.org.uk/discussion.html
Erratum
In the Winter 2004 (Volume 15 Number 3)
issue of IFMH Inform, the ‘The Organisation and Delivery of Public
Health in England’ Management Briefing should have indicated that
it was compiled by Caron Hartley and not Siobhan McClelland and Kathy
Johnson. The IFMH editorial team apologise for any offence caused by
this error.
Farewells to…
IFMH bade farewell to Bertha Low and
Sarah Sterry who have stepped down from the committee. IFMH would
like to thank them for their contributions to IFMH activities, and
wish them both well for the future.
And finally…
Thanks go to Julie Glanville for acting as IFMH Chair during my
temporary absence.
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