IFM Healthcare News
Richard Bridgen
Chair, Information for the Management of
Healthcare (IFMH)
Knowledge and Information Service
United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust
Email:
Committee Changes
Rosie Stark, Maria Grant and Susan Mottram have resigned from
the committee as Publicity Co-ordinator, Digital Archivist and
Committee Member respectively. The committee would like to extend
their warmest thanks and appreciation to them all, for their
contributions to IFMH over the years.
Adrienne Speake of the National Library for Health will be
joining us as Joint Study-Day Co-ordinator, Samantha
Unamboowe-Seneviratne will be taking over as
Secretary and Elisabeth Barry replaces Rosie as Publicity Co-ordinator.
We wish them all well in their new roles.
Study Day
IFMH will be holding a
study day with HLG Wales on 8th May at the Angel Hotel in
Cardiff. The theme of the day will be change management and business
planning for your library. Speaker details will be
available shortly.
The registration fee for the full
day is £20 for IFMH members. A registration form will shortly be
available at
http://www.ifmh.org.uk/studydays.html.
For those who may want to stay in
Cardiff overnight, The Angel Hotel (tel.
02920-649200) is offering a reduced room rate
for attendees at £75 per room. Please state that you will be
attending the Study Day when reserving the special rate.
AGM
The 17th IFMH Annual General Meeting, deferred from
September, took place on Thursday 27th November 2008 at the
CRD in York. The accounts, business plan and revised membership
structure were presented and approved.
Committee Elections
Elections for committee posts will be held in
March 2009. Officers up for election, include Chair; Treasurer and
Membership Secretary; Web editor; 1 x Joint Study Day Co-ordinator; 2
x INFORM Joint Editors, 2 x Committee members.
If any member of IFMH is interested in standing
for election to one of these posts, please complete a nomination form,
available at
http://www.ifmh.org.uk/committee.html.
Nominations need to be signed by two members of the Group entitled to
vote and counter-signed by the candidate to indicate consent. Only
subscriber members are entitled to vote.
Nominations must reach the
Secretary not later than 13th March. No candidate can be
nominated for more than one category of office and shall specify on
the nomination paper the category for which he/she proposes to stand.
IFMH Members Discussion List
Our discussion list
has moved to JISCmail. All associate and subscriber members will be
joined automatically. You’ll receive details on how to use the
discussion list shortly. To post to the list email:
ifmh-members@jiscmail.ac.uk
The discussion
list’s address is
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=ifmh-members.
INFORM on
www.ifmh.org.uk
INFORM18(1) is now available on our website
http://www.ifmh.org.uk/inform/18_1.pdf. If you would like to
contribute an article to the next edition of INFORM, Spring 19(3),
please contact Dr Alan Lovell at
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