Joining ANHOPS

Who is eligible:
Membership is open to Doctors who are providing occupational health services to the NHS.

How to Join
If you wish to join ANHOPS, please click here to download a Word Document to complete and send in to ANHOPS together with your subscription fee.

Benefits of membership:
In this era of clinical governance, membership of ANHOPS brings many important benefits:

Good Medical Practice

  • ANHOPS Guidance Notes, as listed over, cover many of the key areas of member's work.

Maintaining Good Practice

  • ANHOPS conferences provide highly-focussed forums for keeping up to date with all the key OH issues affecting the NHS
  • The ANHOPS newsletter, about to be re-launched, also provides a method of keeping a finger on the pulse of NHS OH

Working with Colleagues

  • Our Autumn workshops provide an opportunity top work with colleagues, to develop ANHOPS Guidance Notes
  • The Executive Committee liaises on behalf of members with other key OH bodies, including the Faculty and Society of Occupational Medicine, the DoH and their HR branch, HSE, BMA and RCN OH committees and others
  • Many regions have active ANHOPS groups, affording opportunities for discussions with colleagues, audit and clinical update sessions

ANHOPS Website

  • The members only area has a discussion forum, in which members can seek the views and assistance of peers to any NHS OH problem or topic in their practice
  • ANHOPS also publishes a members directory, to ease communications between members.

Teaching and Training

  • ANHOPS sponsors an annual training day for SpRs, aiming to cover some of the topics perhaps not so well addressed in traditional training programmes

Research

  • ANHOPS has contributed to research into such topics as low back pain and influenza immunisation. A bursary is also available for SpR research.

Membership

  • Is open to all registered medical practitioners providing OH services in or to the NHS. Subscription is by direct debit, at a cost of £30 per year. This includes access to the website. ANHOPS is a not-for-profit organisation, with any surplus being retained for the benefit of the membership and the achievement of the Association's objectives.