About us

Project Team

Project Officer:

• Sue Childs, Research Fellow, Information Management Research Institute (IMRI), School of Informatics, Northumbria University (now Information Society Research and Consultancy Group (http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/isrc) [Opens in new browser window], School of Computing, Engineering and Information Sciences);


• Sue Childs is the author of these guidelines.

Project managers:

• Diane Barnett, Information Officer, Contact a Family (http://www.cafamily.org.uk) [Opens in new browser window];
  
  
• Dr Graham Walton, Research Fellow, Information Management Research Institute (IMRI), School of Informatics, Northumbria University (now Service Development Manager, Loughborough University Library).
  
  

Collaborator and Web site developer:

• Kay Humphrey, Web Manager;
  
  
• Kay Humphrey was employed by the Centre for Health Information Quality when this Web site was produced.

Consumer-led guidelines

The views of health consumers and support groups were used to produce these guidelines.

Steering Group

A Steering Group advised the project. Its members were from:

• The Alzheimer's Society (http://www.alzheimers.org.uk) [Opens in new browser window];
  
  
• The Centre for Health information Quality (now closed);
  
  
• The National electronic Library for Health (http://www.nelh.nhs.uk) [Opens in new browser window];
  
  
• The National Information Forum (http://www.nif.org.uk) [Opens in new browser window];
  
  
• Organising Medical Networked Information (OMNI), now Intute: Health and Life Sciences: Medicine (http://www.intute.ac.uk/healthandlifesciences/medicine/) [Opens in new browser window];
  
  
• Patient UK (http://www.patient.org.uk) [Opens in new browser window].
  

© Copyright for this site is held by Contact a Family and the Information Society Research and Consultancy Group, School of Computing, Engineering and Information Sciences, Northumbria University. Site published February 2003. Last updated October 2006. Review date October 2007.