Message from the Chair

Margaret Forrest

Regional Meetings: SHINE’s future strategy

In the June issue of Interim, I mentioned that the SHINE Committee is planning three regional meetings with members to discuss ideas for a future strategy for our Network. At the Committee Meeting of 30th July, we held a planning meeting with Gillian Strachan who will be facilitating these workshops. Gillian is an experienced consultant who currently works as an Organisational Development Manager for the Common Services Agency in NHSScotland. She has a number of years’ experience working with both public and private sector organisations in the following areas: strategic change; management skills development; partnership skills development; action learning; building consensus and participatory decision-making; team-building; project management. The SHINE Committee has commissioned Gillian to design and deliver three facilitated workshops in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen in November and to write up an interim report of these. A forth workshop will be held early in 2004 with the Committee and a number of stakeholders. This last workshop will review the information from the consultative process (regional meetings) and create a draft vision for the future and begin the process of setting a strategy to achieve this. By the 2004 AGM in April next year we should have a number of options for SHINE’s future strategy upon which members will be able to cast their votes. SHINE’s current voting system will also need to be reviewed during the regional meetings.

NHSS Copyright Licence

Following a “networking lunch”, the afternoon sessions of the regional meetings will be devoted to the new NHSScotland Copyright Licence agreement with the Copyright Licensing Agency. Jim MacNeilage, Business Development Manager for the CLA in Scotland will make a presentation on the new licence and be available to answer any questions concerning copyright issues from SHINE members. Many people will remember the regional meetings of 2000 at which Jim spoke about the first licence and the helpful question and answer sessions which followed. The dates and venues of the regional meetings are advertised elsewhere in this issue of Interim. Please consider attending one of these meetings and have your say in the future strategy of SHINE.

Moving on

Many thanks to all SHINE members who have sent me their good wishes on starting my new job with Dundee University at the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Kirkcaldy. I have received a very warm welcome from all my new colleagues in Kirkcaldy and Dundee. It’s especially nice to be working with more SHINEy people! Looking forward to meeting many more of you at the regional meetings in November.

Margaret Forrest
Dundee University
School of Nursing & Midwifery Library
Kirkcaldy
Fife
m.e.s.forrest@dundee.ac.uk