Continuing Professional Development Panel Membership 

 
 
 
 
 
 

HLG CPD Panel Members

The HLG CPD Panel would welcome new members. The CPD Panel meets 4 times a year, in London. Travelling expenses are paid by HLG. A large part of the Panel’s work is organising study days HLG members, and it is also involved in a range of other activities aimed at improving CPD opportunities for our members. As a CPD Panel member, we would expect you to come to meetings and contribute your ideas and views and to help to organise study days. Don’t worry if you have never done this sort of thing before as we provide a lot of support. You will find that being on the CPD Panel is a learning opportunity in itself and will give you the chance to enhance skills such as team-working, organising and negotiating.
For more information, contact the CPD Panel chair Pauline Blagden. pauline.blagden@porthosp.nhs.uk  

Conference Director/Conference Programme Lead
These are exciting and challenging opportunities to get involved in organising a major conference. The HLG Conference is held every 2 years, in the years when Umbrella does not take place so the next one will be in 2010. HLG uses the CILIP Conference Services and they handle most routine organisational matters and can offer advice and support to the HLG conference team
The Conference Director oversees the organisation of the conference, from deciding on the theme, format, dates and venue to choosing the menus. The Programme Lead puts together the conference programme from the call for abstracts through to finding people to chair the sessions.
Organising the HLG Conference is very much a team effort; the Conference Director and Programme Lead work closely together and also appreciate the help of other HLG members who volunteer to be on the Conference Committee.
Pauline Blagden and Michelle Wake were Conference Director and Programme Lead respectively for the Eastbourne and Cardiff Conferences. They are now standing down due to other commitments but would be pleased to talk to anyone interested in the conference roles.
Pauline.blagden@porthosp.nhs.uk  
Michelle.wake@pharmacy.ac.uk  

HLG Umbrella Rep
The next Umbrella Conference will take place on 14th15th July 2009 at the University of Hertfordshire and HLG needs a rep for the Conference Committee. It is a great opportunity to see behind the scenes and meet CILIP leaders. You will be expected to represent HLG at the four conference committee meetings in London (expenses paid by CILIP), liaise with other group reps to organise speakers, liaise with the CILIP conference organiser, contact speakers with conference information and organise a time and venue for the HLG AGM. The HLG Panel will provide support. For more details contact Dorothy Curtis, the previous rep, Dorothy.curtis@glos.nhs.uk  or Michelle Wake, who has been standing in while the job has been vacant. Michelle.wake@pharmacy.ac.uk  

Current Membership pf the CPD Panel

Please contact any of the panel with suggestions or feedback on CPD activity:

Chair
Pauline Blagden
MA DipLib CertEd MCLIP
Service Development Librarian, Library, Education Centre St Mary's Hospital, Portsmouth PO3 6AD
Tel:                023 9228 6000         ext 3906
Fax: 023 9286 6847
Email: Pauline.Blagden@porthosp.nhs.uk  

Secretary
Michelle Wake
BA MA MCLIP
Deputy Librarian, Library, School of Pharmacy,
University of London, 29-39 Brunswick square,
London, WC1N 1AX
Tel:                020 7753 5833        
Fax: 020 7753 5947
Email: michelle.wake@ulsop.ac.uk  

Event Organisers
Diane Finlayson
BA MCLIP
NHS Direct Kent and Surrey
Email: diane.fin@talk21.com  

Cathel Kerr BSc PhD DipLib MCLIP
Medical and Drug Information, 8 Rosebery Grove,
Dalgety Bay, Fife KY11 9YL
Email: clkerr@btopenworld.com  

Sue Peacock BA DipLib MCLIP
Trust Librarian: Education and Training, Education Centre Library, Good Hope Hospital NHS Trust,
Rectory Road, Sutton Coldfield
West Midlands, B75 7RR
Tel:                0121 378 6206         ext 3540
Email: sue.peacock@goodhope.nhs.uk  

Lucy Reid BA MA
Head of Information Services, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, 27 Sussex Place,
Regent's Park, London NW1 4RG
Tel:                020 7772 6385        
Email: lreid@rcog.org.uk  

Barbara Sen
Lecturer, Business Information, Room 3.46, John Foster Building, 98 Mount Pleasant, Liverpool L3 5UZ
Tel:                0151 231 3823        
Email: b.a.sen@livjm.ac.uk  

Maurice Wakeham
Academic Liaison Librarian, Health and Social Care,
APU
Tel:                01245 493131         ext 3766
Email: m.wakeham@apu.ac.uk  

Umbrella Conference Co-ordinator
Dorothy Curtis

Library Services Manager for the Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Trust, The Library, Alexandra House,
Cheltenham General Hospital, Sandford Road,
Cheltenham GL53 7AN
Tel:                08454 223036        
Fax: 08454 223060
Email: dorothy.curtis@egnhst.org.uk  
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