This year's lecture was given by Diana Kloss, MBE and was entitled "The changing face of occupational health law 2002 - 2012". We were delighted Diana could join us again after 10 years to update us on the current situation.
20th Annual General Meeting and Good Practice Forum Tuesday, 20 November 2012 - Goodenough College, London
A very successful AGM and Good Practice Forum was held at the Goodenough College. Once the evaluation forms have been fully examined we will give you further comments but for now we are attaching the presentations for your use. These have been password-protected and are therefore available to members only.
Thanks again to our sponsors/exhibitors : Amplivox Cohort Drs Direct Kays Medical MASTA Osmond Ergonomics Warwick International Computing Systems Vitalograph
General The Association holds an annual Ruth Alston Memorial Lecture and sometimes its own conference in the early part of the year. The Annual General Meeting and Good Practice Forum/Occupational Health Update are generally held in October each year.
The AOHNP conference aims to provide good value, central location, many networking opportunities, interesting content and learning outcomes.
Ruth Alston was a passionate advocate of occupational health nursing. She frequently demonstrated this during her varied career that included working in industrial and commercial settings and teaching occupational health nursing students.
To many she is probably best known for her part in the development of the Hanasaari Model for occupational health nursing. This was one of the earliest examples of occupational health nursing in the UK mirroring the developments and moves towards an increased academic approach seen in nursing generally.
No model can ever capture the essence and humanity of Ruth. She was firm yet kind, assertive yet tolerant, warm yet business like and knowledgeable yet a life long learner.
Her tragic early death made us all poorer but richer in that we have the opportunity to remember her during the annual Ruth Alston Memorial Lecture.
One of Ruth’s last kind acts for her AOHNP(UK) colleagues was to agree that this annual lecture be held in her name. She requested only that there should somehow be a link between occupational health nursing and the business world. This has given opportunity for a wide brief and diverse topics for past speakers.
