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:
Networking for
Dissemination/IFMH Annual General Meeting
The IFMH autumn study
day will take place in London in November and will embrace the theme
of networking to encourage the effective dissemination of
information. The study day will also be the venue of the IFMH Annual
General Meeting (AGM). 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
Committee News
After three years as
IFMH Secretary, Karen has stepped down from the IFMH committee to
focus on her new role as a Health Services Researcher at NHS Quality
Improvement Scotland (QIS); whilst Eve Hollis has stepped down from
her post of representing IFMH at Health Library Group committee
meetings to focus on the planning of the IFLA conference held in Seoul
in August 2006:
http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla72/index.htm
We wish both Eve and Karen well for the future, and to thank them for
their contributions to IFMH over the past few years.
On a brighter note,
the IFMH committee is delighted to be joined by Suzanne Wilson, also
of NHS QIS, as incoming IFMH Secretary. Suzanne can be contacted by
phone on +44 (0)141 241 6317 or by email at: . Welcome Suzanne.
If you would like to find out more about joining the IFMH committee
and contributing to the ongoing success of IFMH, please contact Maria
on ++44 (0)161 295 6423.
IFMH Auditors
The IFMH auditors for
the 2005 accounts were Linda Dorrington, HLG Auditor and Richard
Parker, HLG Treasurer. We would like to register our thanks to Linda
and Richard for the contribution to IFMH activities.
IFMH Inform: Have
Your Say…
IFMH Inform is now a
regular tri-annual publication and continues to support new writers as
well as report on important health and social care developments. With
a relatively new editorial team in place we have lots of ideas about
how to take IFMH Inform forward. We’d also like to hear from you.
Are there any features you particularly like? Are there additional
features you think would add to the overall quality of IFMH Inform?
Or perhaps you’d like to write a short piece for a future issue?
Whatever your thoughts, please get in touch with one of the editorial
team: Richard Bridgen (Email:
Tel: 01522
573478) or Rosalind McNally (Email:
Tel: 0161 275 7624)
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The IFMH committee
would like to pass on its condolences to the friends and relatives of
Linda Dorrington, IFMH Auditor, who died suddenly at the end of July.
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