INSIGHT
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The value of FEDIP membership F
EDIP is the Federation for Informatics
Professionals in Health and Social Care, and a new initiative is helping
CILIP members get more out of it. The federation – which includes CILIP, British Computer Society (BCS), Institute of Heath Records and Information Management (IHRIM), and Society for Innovation, Technology, and Modernisation (Socitm), works to establish professional standards, maintain a register of practitioners and thereby provide greater confi dence to employers, colleagues, and wider society.
Professionalism It provides added value to CILIP membership by positioning health knowledge and library specialists within the wider family of healthcare informatics professionals. Membership of FEDIP provides greater awareness of how the wider health informatics profession is making use of new and developing technologies to benefi t healthcare and opens new opportunities for partnerships and collaboration.
As a member, I use the FEDIP Leading Practitioner logo in my email signature, together with the appropriate post-nominals, alongside my CILIP credentials. This provides colleagues and partners with immediate evidence of my commitment and professionalism in both the knowledge and library, and wider health informatics professions.
Resources
Another useful member benefi t is the FEDIP Hub, a learning management system holding a catalogue of resources for health and care informatics professionals, including past webinars and accredited CPD resources. The system logs time spent on CPD providing a useful record for revalidation or professional registration.
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Membership of FEDIP helps to demonstrate a personal commitment to delivering the best health and care services through improving and advocating for health informatics services. We work in a sector where professionalism is key. Our fellow healthcare professionals are members of professional bodies within their own sectors, each with its own standards and revalidation requirements. Membership of our own professional body, CILIP, helps to evidence to other healthcare professionals that we are health professionals in our own right, working to our own professional standards, with peer recognition embodied in a rigorous professional registration and revalidation process.
FEDIP Membership Levels Registration with FEDIP is open to anyone practising anywhere within the health and care informatics spectrum: from library assistants and paraprofessionals to senior knowledge and library managers. If you improve delivery of health and care services through knowledge and information, you can become a FEDIP Registered practitioner.
There are various levels of FEDIP registration which have been mapped to CILIP professional registration levels for ease of application.
Chartered members may use their professional judgement to decide the appropriate level of FEDIP registration (Senior or Advanced) using the criteria provided by FEDIP.
www.fedip.org/fedip- standard
Joining FEDIP Membership of FEDIP costs £25 per year and is available to CILIP members who have recently revalidated. Colleagues applying for Associate Practitioner level may submit a CPD log detailing 10 hours of learning in lieu of revalidation.
Full details of how to join FEDIP are provided on CILIP’s website:
www.cilip.org.uk/CILIPandFEDIP
Dominic Gilroy (
dominic.gilroy@
hee.nhs.uk), Workforce Planning and Development Leads, Knowledge for Healthcare, Health Education England.
Feeling inspired? An exciting
opportunity for CILIP members CILIP and CILIP HLG are delighted to announce that they have partnered with FEDIP to bring you two FEDIP funded opportunities for 2023. Applications are now open for 200 existing CILIP members to apply for 12 months FEDIP registration for free. To take up this off er simply visit the webpage below to submit your application. You will need to be able to provide proof of recent revalidation or alternatively provide a CPD log detailing 10 hours of learning. In addition we also have 40 full CILIP memberships to off er, which also comes with free FEDIP registration for the duration of the membership and access to CILIP’s HLG. To be eligible to apply for this off er applicants must be able to submit a CPD log detailing 10 hours of learning and complete the application form demonstrating how you meet the criteria. If you know someone who is not currently a member of CILIP who might benefi t from this off er please signpost them to the website below for full details on how to apply.
www.cilip.org.uk/FEDIP-bursary
Closing date for applications for both opportunities is 28 April, with CILIP membership and FEDIP registration valid from 1 June for 12 months. IP
March 2023
Registration with FEDIP is open to anyone practising anywhere within the health and care informatics spectrum.
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