- Smart Healthcare, Wednesday 27 January 2010 15.05 GMT
Official media partner
HSJ is the UK's leading health management and policy resource, read by influential decision makers at all levels and across all sectors of the health service. HSJ is at the forefront of healthcare journalism and regularly carries exclusive stories on the latest issues affecting healthcare management and interviews with influential policy makers in government and the NHS itself.
Healthcare IT has increasingly come to the fore in regards to healthcare policy. With the readers of HSJ looking to us to keep them informed on new advances in telehealth, business intelligence and the Connecting for Health programme, with 69% not reading any other healthcare or management title.
The weekly magazine first published in 1890, has an ABC circulation of 17,651 and is 99% paid for. While the website; www.hsj.co.uk has over 100,000 Unique Users per month and 77,000 registered users.
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Event partners
Intellect works with and for members to:
• Develop the UK's capability to support a strong and growing technology sector;
• Improve their business performance by providing insights into markets and supply chains and constructively influencing their development;
• Engage with government and regulators to create the most favourable environment for growth and employment;
• Maintain the industry's reputation and championing its strategic importance sharing and promoting best practice.
National Health Executive
For decades, the UK spent less per head and less as a proportion of its wealth on health care than its European neighbours. In 2002, the Wanless Review found that the health service had been underfunded by £200 billion over the last 30 years and concluded that, in order to meet people's expectations and to deliver the highest quality over the next 20 years, spending on the NHS should rise to £184 billion a year.
As a result, the last 7 years have seen a period of unprecedented growth in spending on the NHS. Annual spending on the NHS has more than doubled and will soon top £100 billion in England alone. By 2022, 10.6% and 12.5% of GDP will be spent on health care compared with 7.7% today.
Despite this massive investment, hardly a week goes by without a story appearing in the media of a "crisis" affecting one aspect of the NHS or another as the government continues its programme of health service reform. One of the most important reforms is the government's commitment to forge a new relationship between the NHS and the private sector in order to make the health service more efficient.
With government spending on the NHS continuing to increase and the private sector playing an increasingly important role in the delivery of health care and ancillary services, the opportunity to do business with the NHS has never been greater.
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UK CHIP
Health Informatics comprises the knowledge, skills and tools which enable information to be collected, managed, used and shared safely to support the delivery of healthcare and promote health.
The UK Council for Health Informatics Professions (UKCHIP) is the regulatory body for health informatics professionals working or aspiring to work in the United Kingdom.
The purpose of UK CHIP is to serve patients and the public by promoting their health, care, safety and well-being through the strong and independent certification of health informatics professionals.
UK CHIP's vision is:
• That health informatics is recognised as a valued profession in both the public and private health care sectors throughout the United Kingdom.
• That all persons in the United Kingdom who spend a substantial proportion of their role or time working in health informatics shall be registered with UK CHIP and thereby certified as professionals who meet defined standards of professional conduct and competence.
All UK CHIP's activities are directed towards achieving the vision, which will support:
• Better patient safety and protection of the public;
• Increased public confidence in health advice and information;
• More efficient and effective design, development and delivery of health services.
BCS ASSIST is the professional association for health and social care informaticians. It has a network of regional branches that run educational and informative events throughout the year. Officers will be on the stand to meet new and current members alike and to discuss membership of ASSIST and its benefits for health informatics professionals.
