The enquiry about a Corporate Member's accurate contact details and the
failings of the Member's Handbook is very timely.
The ACB Handbook is created in mid May each year - for printing and
distribution to Members with the subsequent July ACB News.
It is only as accurate as Members make it by promptly notifying the ACB
Office of changes in details as soon as or before they happen. Please
realise that mailing labels are created at least 2 weeks ahead of
distributions.
The ACB Office maintains the only current and "up-to date" database of
members details - governed by the Data Protection Act 1998. We are working
towards making this available on the Internet under password access security
control to ACB Members. In this way Members can check and amend their own
full details or interrogate working address and contact details of any other
members.
So in the meantime - please ensure you keep the ACB Office abreast of ANY
changes in your address or other membership details immediately (it wastes
your money when journals are returned as "gone away"). To give an idea of
the magnitude of the problem, approximately 300-400 amendments of one form
or another are made to the database during each year.
And if you have problems contacting any private or Corporate Member of the
Association, feel free to try the ACB Office - preferably by email - lot's
of you already do !
(But we never divulge contact details to non-Members - we would forward the
enquirer's details to you to choose when and if to contact them)
Members should receive a letter or email in the few days indicating what
details of theirs will be published in the new handbook - so please check
its accuracy and completeness and let us have any corrections by MAY 13th
........... or be lost for another year !
Best regards,
Graham
Dr Graham Groom
Senior Administrator
Association of Clinical Biochemists
130-132 Tooley Street, LONDON SE1 2TU
Phone 020 7403 8001 FAX 020 7403 8006
Email: [log in to unmask]
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