Welcome to The Association for Informatics Professionals in Health and Social Care (ASSIST).
ASSIST is a professional association for those working in and for informatics in healthcare and social care.
Its objective is to develop professionalism and professional standards, and to work with other bodies including government to provide a voice for informatics professionals.
The latest ASSIST workforce survey results are now available.
The survey, carried out for ASSIST by Tribal Consulting and with support from NHS Connecting for health, confirms continuing shortages of programme and project managers, systems and business analysts, clinical coders and information analysts. Pay is a major factor, linked to Agenda for Change.
Key recommendations include: action to aid recruitment, including Agenda for Change recruitment premia and marketing the wider benefits of working in the NHS; focussed informatics workforce planning and support for development; and the formal professionalisation and accreditation of informatics specialists. The survey findings and recommendations have already been input to the national Informatics Review, led until recently by Professor Matthew Swindells.
ASSIST has now held its second successful workshop on Electronic Document and Records Management.
We are very grateful to our long-term partners: Tribal, for initiating this programme of events and for presenting at them; and to BT, for providing the venue and catering. We also very much appreciate the support of our sponsors: Blueware, LSC group and Capita Total Document Solutions.
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