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
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This
issue
Summer see IFMH turn
its attention to social services. We begin with a study considering
the role of practitioners in implementing a management information
system within their social services team, and round up this issue with
a management briefing on how social services departments operate, why
they are important and examples of good practice. For those of you
unfamiliar with the organization of social services, these two papers
provide a useful introduction to the subject.
Evidence Based
Librarianship
IFMH maintains it commitment to the development of our evidence based
profession by being a proud sponsor of the 3rd
International Evidence Based Librarianship conference. Held between
16th
and 19th
October 2005 in Brisbane, Australia, full details of the programme can
be found at
http://conferences.alia.org.au/ebl2005/.
C… c… c…
c… changes
As the IFMH committee continues to expand, each quarter brings a new
face to the fore. This issue we welcome Julie-Ann Rowszkowski, East
Anglia’s Children’s Hospital (Email: Tel: 01223 815103) who has
joined the committee as an ‘ordinary member’. Julie-Ann will be
assisting the committee in taking forward a range of short-term
projects in the coming months. Welcome Julie-Ann.
If you would like to
‘dip your toe in the water’ by joining Julie-Ann in becoming an
ordinary member of the IFMH committee, an opportunity that will give
you the chance to familiar yourself with the workings of the group
before deciding if you’d like to take on a designated committee role,
please email me at or call me on 0161 295
6423.
Subscriptions
For those of you who
have colleagues who read IFMH Inform over your shoulder, you’ll be
pleased to see the inclusion of a subscription form within this, and
future issues, of Inform. Subscriptions rates remain competitive
ranging from £10 (for students, retired persons and the unemployed) to
individual rates of £25.00, £45 for institutional members and £60 for
international subscriptions. How could they possibly refuse!
Date for Your
Diary
14th
November 2005
The next IFMH study day will take place in Leeds on
Monday 14th
November 2005. It will be a joint event organised in association with
Libraries for Nursing and will focus on
user education, information skills
and information literacy. Further details will
be distributed shortly on the IFMH members’ discussion list. To
ensure you receive further information, please join the list at
http://www.ifmh.org.uk/discussion.html.
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