IFMH Annual General Meeting: 18 September 2008

The IFM Healthcare 17th Annual General Meeting will take place on Thursday 18th September 2008 at 12.30pm
at ScHARR, University of Sheffield. All IFMH Inform subscribers are invited to attend. Please see the AGM booklet for more details (please bring a copy if attending the AGM). If you would like to send apologies or table an item for discussion at the AGM, please contact Suzanne Wilson, IFMH secretary at  no later than Thursday 21st August 2008.

IFMH session at the 2008 Health Libraries Group Conference, Cardiff.
IFMH ran a session at the 2008 HLG Conference in Cardiff on Monday 21st July 2008. The session, entitled "Changing rooms: designing an Information and Library Service for the future", was presented by Ray Phillips from the Information and Library Service at the King's Fund.  For the abstract and presentation, please see our study day pages.

Recent Study Day: "SUCCESS IN PROJECT MANAGEMENT" - an informative and practical workshop for those wanting to improve their project management skills.

Libraries for Nursing (LfN), Information for Management in Healthcare (IFMH) and Health Libraries Group (HLG) recently ran a joint Study Day on project management, at the University of Salford.  Presentations from the day are available from the study day pages.

New IFMH Subscription Rates for 2008

IFMH subscriptions will rise in 2008 for the first time in 4 years.  The new rates which, in addition to the tri-annual publication of IFMH Inform, include discounted charges for study day will be:

• Individual subscriptions - £30 (including one discounted study day place)

• Institutional subscriptions - £60 (including three discounted study day places)

• Concession subscriptions (Student, Retired Person, Unemployed Person) - £15 (including one discounted study day place)

Please see the 'Subscribe to IFMH Inform' page for further details.

IFM Healthcare is pleased to announce that it is sponsoring, Anita Pearson, a disabilities social worker and Machteld Olthof, a physiotherapist/occupational therapist, who are VSO volunteers in the Kunene Region of Namibia. Anita and Machteld work together with their Namibian colleagues to improve support for people with disabilities. The sponsorship from IFM Healthcare will enable them to produce a training manual and other training materials for social workers, physiotherapists and medical rehabilitation workers to help them structure and organise community based rehabilitation training in an area of Namibia where there are limited resources and budgets. For more details, including photographs and a report on the project, click here.