HPA Travel Award

The deadline for applications for the 2008/9 awards has been extended to 18th November 2008. Details here.

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Annual Conference 2008

This will be held in Harrogate, on 21 Nov 2008, at the Holiday Inn. The conference brochure, including the programme, is here.

Put it in your diary now!

The following lists the number of delegates each region is allowed:

Region Name	No Delegates to ADC
North East	4
Yorkshire and Humberside	6
East Midlands	3
East of England	2
London	6
South East	4
South West	5
West Midlands	4
North West	4
Scotland	7
Northern Ireland	1
Wales	3

Victory for South-West trainees

The HPA has been campaigning for a long time for equalilty of banding for Part I clinical scientist trainees. We discovered that the 2007 intake were all banded the same, apart from those in the South-West. We therefore took up their case. We are pleased to report that this has now been remedied and all trainees in England and Wales are banded the same, using the same profile.

Modernising Scientific Careers Newsletter

The Modernising Scientific Careers programme produces a newsletter (details of how to sign up for it are in the letter itself). The most recent copy (March 2008) is here.

NHS Pensions

The NHS pension scheme changed in April 2008 - details may be found on this bit of the NHS pensions website.

Lecture fees

Things changed with Agenda for Change! We're therefore producing some advice on lecture fees - watch this space.

Professional Indemnity/Liability Insurance

The recent President's letter referred to PII being proposed to be offered by Unite (see here for details). This has led to queries regarding PII for private work. We cannot offer any recommendations on this matter, but some members have found insurance via
PI Connect, 1 Beech House, Journeymans Way, Southend
OfficeVillage, Southend-on-Sea, Essex SS2 5TF
Contact: Steve Dunne (Tel: 01702 445550,
Email: stephen.dunne@piconnect.co.uk)

Are you registered?

There has been some concern over registrants with the HPC being removed from the register without warning. This is due to a direct debit not being paid (which may happen for a variety of reasons). The HPA therefore recommend that you check that you're still registered on a regular basis, by using the HPCheck website (http://hpcheck.org). We've not heard of any Clinical Scientists being affected in this way, and hopefully it will stay that way, but just in case...

Technologist members have nothing to worry about (yet) as their register is voluntary and is not held by the HPC.

KSF outlines

The HPA are becoming concerned that KSF outlines are being developed in isolation, and therefore without national consistency. In order to investigate this, we are asking members to submit broad outlines of posts, using a spreadsheet available here. Please complete it and e-mail it to Paul Ganney

e-mail list

To subscribe, just send a blank e-mail to hospitalphysics-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

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• What is the HPA?
• People
  • National Professional Committee includes list of past presidents
    • Confirmed minutes of meeting (26/01/06)
    • Confirmed minutes of meeting (06/04/06)
    • Confirmed minutes of meeting (13/07/06)
    • Confirmed minutes of meeting (19/10/06)
    • Confirmed minutes of meeting (30/01/07)
    • Confirmed minutes of meeting (24/04/07)
    • Confirmed minutes of meeting (17/07/07)
    • Draft minutes of meeting (01/11/07)
    • Draft minutes of meeting (26/02/08)
    • HPA byelaws
    • Letter from President to current members - 2006
    • Letter from President to current members - January 2008
    • Letter from President to current members - July 2008
  • Accredited Reps
    • Role
    • Become a rep
    • Contact
  • HPA regional structure
    • Northern
    • Yorkshire and Humberside
    • East Midlands
    • East of England
    • London
    • South East
    • South West
    • West Midlands
    • North West
    • Scotland
    • Northern Ireland
    • Wales
  • Annual Delegates Meeting, 2005
    • Papers to the meeting
    • Papers and presentations from the meeting
    • Confirmed minutes
  • HPA Conference 2006
    • Presentations from the Conference
    • Unconfirmed minutes
  • HPA Conference 2007
    • Presentations from the Conference
    • Unconfirmed minutes
• Employment issues
  • Terms and Conditions
  • Regulation
    • The Foster Review
    • The HPA response to the Foster Review
    • The HPA response to the HPC consultation on its Standards of Conduct, Performance and Ethics
  • Pay
    • Evidence to the pay review body for 2006 (from Amicus section of Unite)
    • Evidence to the pay review body for 2006 (from RCN web site)
    • Evidence to the pay review body for 2006 (from Guild of Healthcare Pharmacists)
  • Agenda for Change
    • Questions and Answers
      • 4th February 2008 There are a number of outstanding issues which have been addressed by these Q&As including: RRPs, calculation of sick pay, COLs, local contracts and protected on call agreements. Please ensure that these Q&As are used to resolve local difficulties and disputes relating to the interpretation of the AfC handbook.
    • Job Evaluation and Matching
      • Assimilation response form
      • Outcome expectations
      • Trainee Gradings
      • Federation of Clinical Scientists' Briefing on Trainees under AfC
      • Reviews and Appeals
      • Supplementary Advice on reviews and appeals
      • Amicus section of Unite Advice
      • Consistency concerns re clinical scientists
      • Excel spreadsheet for profile determination
      • Latest Clinical Scientist profiles - includes note on withdrawal of previous Medical Physics profiles
      • Current Generic Profiles (revised version expected soon - allegedly)
      • Trainee Profile and HPA position statement
      • JEG advice on evidence for Reviews
      • Revised staff council procedure for resolving blocked matching/evaluation/consistency checking issues
    • Knowledge and Skills Framework
      • An introduction - Paul Ganney's IPEM ASM 2005 Presentation
      • Introducing KSF in a Medical Physics Department - Hugh Wilkins' ADC 2005 Presentation
  • Recruitment and Retention survey results
  • A position statement on redundancy
  • Continuing Professional Development. Niall MacDougall has developed a spreadsheet to assist with the recording of CPD for HCS registrants. A sample of his 2007 return, which you may freely adapt, is here.
• Information
  • News Updates
    • Career Framework for Healthcare Scientists launched
    • Supporting information launched for above
  • Students
• Join
  • Interested? The new HPA leaflet is here.
  • How to join
  • The HPA is both a national branch and a professional group. You can be a member of your local branch and a member of the HPA NPG - this form allows you to opt in/out of them.
  • HPA fees are tax deductible - this list shows it and this form is the one to use to claim it.
• Unite &. other union issues
  • Keep our NHS public - a campaign supported by the HPA
  • Reduction in chaplaincy support - for any members where this is happening, the Amicus section of Unite have produced a draft letter to MPs which members may edit, sign and send.
• Links
  • HPA publications
  • Other websites

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