The Association for Clinical Biochemistry
The Association for
Clinical Biochemistry
130-132 Tooley Street
LONDON
SE1 2TU

Tel: 020 7403 8001
Fax: 020 7403 8006
admin@acb.org.uk
www.acb.org.uk

ACB Government Affairs Officer

Public Relations and Public Affairs
Communications Strategy
Media and Communications Training
Monitoring Government Output
Collaboration
Work in Progress

Communications Strategy

The Association has limited resources, so we can not hope to tackle every issue that is important to us. The Executive Board is adopting a strategic approach to this by dentifying a small number of key issues that we need to address, the important audiences to whom we need to address our views and an outline timetable over the next two years for delivering the messages. The updated strategy summary for 2008 - 2010 was presented to Council in July and the final version adopted by the Executive in October 2008. A brief summary is shown below. You can follow the links to these:

Strategy DocumentDownload Strategy Document (168 KB)

Executive SummaryDownload Executive Summary (113 KB)

The Key Issues

  • The harmonisation of clinical biochemistry and laboratory medicine in the interests of improved quality and patient safety
  • The development of knowledge management as an educational programme to achieve good practice in the use of clinical biochemistry and laboratory medicine services
  • Promoting work on future directions in clinical biochemistry and laboratory medicine

    • Promotional Work

  • Publicising research work of public interest
  • Publicising ACB perspectives on matters of public interest
  • Meet the Scientist events such as cafés scientifique
  • Open days
  • Careers Fairs
  • National Pathology Week
  • Presentations to clubs, societies, etc.
  • Presentations at Board meetings, Trust AGMs and so on …

    • Lobbying Parliament(s)

  • Arranging events whenever possible to draw Politicians’ attention to our proposals and policies
  • Engaging individual politicians who express an interest in matters of importance to us
  • Arranging “postcard lobbies” by members of their local MPs on critical issues

    • Joe O'Meara, August 2008
    Government.Officer@acb.org.uk

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