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:
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Individual subscriptions - £30 (including one
discounted study day place)
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Institutional subscriptions - £60 (including three
discounted study day places)
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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.