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On Air No 108 FC 25/1/06 10:21 am Page 1 On Air No 108 IFC 25/1/06 10:28 am Page 1 On Air No 108 p1 25/1/06 10:38 am Page 1 January/February 2006 Issue 108 The Official Journal of the Hospital Broadcasting Association in this issue ... Dear Reader, Committee Report ................................................................ 3 Happy New Year to you all and I wish you every success Top Honours for Winchester ............................................ 5 for your hospital radio station in 2006. It delights me to start the year on a positive note with con- June’s Travels ............................................................................ 7 gratulations. Firstly, to Ted Hanson of Radio Horton in June’s Travels ............................................................................ 6 Banbury. Ted was awarded an MBE in the New Year’s HWD’s New Studio .............................................................. 7 Honours List. For a full report see page 7. MBE for Hospital Radio Presenter .................................... 7 Secondly, to Nigel Dallard and all at Winchester Hospital Brockley’s Christmas Raffle .................................................. 8 Radio; they won a top national award and £5,000 in prize Radio Wey’s Review of 2005 .............................................. 9 money. Read all about it on page 5. Lion’s New Lease of Life .................................................... 10 Before Jimmy Savile visited the Big Brother household, he managed to find time to pop along to Stoke Mandeville Extreme Hospital Broadcasting Week ............................ 11 Hospital Radio and present a long service award to Martin Countrywide ... News from the Stations ...................... 12 Kinch. Congratulations to Martin, who has been with the sta- News Update ........................................................................ 16 tion since January 1979. You can find out all about it on page Hospital Broadcasting in Dundee .................................... 18 6. Letters to the Editor .......................................................... 19 On page 11 you can read about the extreme measures one Small but Beautiful ................................................................ 20 member of a hospital radio station went to celebrate Hospital The HBA Conference Bursary .......................................... 21 Broadcasting Week 2005. I am not suggesting for one moment Bursary Application Form .................................................. 22 you need to go to these lengths but I certainly look forward to read how you are planning to celebrate Hospital Broadcasting Regional Rep Details .......................................................... 23 Week 2006, which this year is between 1st and 9th April. Who To Contact .................................................................. 24 Please also take some photographs of any events you run and please, please let me have a report and a copy of any photos. As ever, I am looking for more articles and features for On Air. Please see if you can find the time to write something and send it to me at the address below or email it to me at FRONT COVER PICTURE: Jimmy Savile at Stoke Mandeville Hospital Radio [email protected]. I look forward to hearing from you. to present Martin Kinch with his long service award. See inside this issue for further story. Michelle On Air is the Official Journal of the HBA which is the trading name of the National Association of Hospital Broadcasting Organisations, a Company limited by guarantee. Registered in England No. 2750147. A Registered Charity No. 1015501. Registered office: Mariners House, 24 Nelsons Gardens, Hedge End, Southampton, SO30 2NE. On Air is distributed free of charge to all member stations of the Association plus interested parties. All material is ©2006 of HBA and may not be reproduced in any form without the written authority of the Editor. Views expressed in the magazine are not necessarily those of HBA, or the Editor but are the personal opinion of the contributor. Whilst every effort is taken to ensure the accuracy of the publication, all advertisements and articles appear in good faith and HBA and the Editor accept no responsibility for any errors or inaccuracies. Address for On-Air: The Editor, On Air, 2 Falkland Close, Boreham, Chelmsford, Essex CM3 3DD Tel: 0870 321 6011 Fax: 0870 321 6019 Email: [email protected] COPY DATE NEXT ISSUE 16th February 2006 On Air No 108 p2 25/1/06 12:33 pm Page 1 On Air No 108 p3 25/1/06 1:50 pm Page 1 Committee Report Welcome to 2006! I hope that you if they are interested in an ongoing had a good Christmas and New Year. liaison with HBA. I've got a relatively long report this time, I'm sure there are lessons that can be so I'd better cut to the chase, starting learnt from this episode and once things with a whole raft of thank yous on have calmed down a bit, I'm sure the behalf of the Trustees ... Executive Committee will try to work out what they are. Non-Trustee Committee Posts One of the first tasks the Executive SBES Committee has to do after the AGM is Thanks to all of you who came to to formally re-appoint those volunteers say ‘hello’ to us at SBES in Birmingham who take on non-Trustee roles. I'm sure in November. I was there on the it will not surprise you to hear that Wednesday, when it was relatively Marie Harper is staying on as Executive quiet but June tells me everyone was Administrator, Geoff Fairbairn is still the rushed off their feet on the Thursday. Technical Adviser and Michelle Thanks also to Jan and Andy Swain for Newstead remains Editor of this august helping to man the HBA stand. publication. Thanks to them all for their continued support. You may have been aware that Gary Charity Law King had indicated that he would be The England and Wales Charity Bill standing down as Sales and Advertising is currently stuck waiting for the Executive, following his resignation government to find time for it to be from HR Crawley. However, he was debated in the House of Commons. convinced that this was not a barrier to In the meantime the Charity him remaining in post and he has Commission is seeking suggestions as to therefore agreed to do so. Thanks how the ways in which charities are Gary. by Nigel Dallard, Secretary regulated can be simplified. This is part Terry Savage also wished to stand of a government-wide initiative led by down as Webmaster and I am pleased the ‘Better Regulation Executive’. to announce that Mark Venus, the If you have any suggestions, please in how it disburses the money the EC either submit them directly to the webmaster at HR Bedside in allocates to bursaries in the budget. Bournemouth, has been appointed as commission, or send them to me and I'll Previously, the rules allowed a single collate them and send them off as a Terry's successor. Hopefully by the time bursary to be paid to cover attendance you read this, the handover will have single submission. by one person at each conference. We In Scotland, with the Charities and occurred. Good luck to Mark and many have now removed this restriction to thanks for the hard work to Terry. Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act now allow the subcommittee the ability to enacted, they have gone consultation At the time of writing the wider IT pay part of the costs of more than one support arrangements for HBA have yet crazy in an effort to get all the person to attend conference if they so necessary secondary rules and to be finalised. We have a couple of desire. people who are interested and regulations in force in time for April, when they hope to bring large parts of hopefully we can find a role for them Patientline both. We're planning to get together the new Act into force. There are a Those of you who serve hospitals and talk things through in the New number of ongoing consultations from with Patientline systems will probably Year. both the Scottish Executive and OSCR, be aware that, in late November, they to which I hope to respond on behalf of suddenly started changing the channel HBA. Regions number on which you were Our new Regional Manager, Paul broadcasting. The story is long and Sysum, is busy sorting out the finer complicated and, at the time of writing Review of Intellectual details of a new regional structure and (mid December), the situation is very Property Law looking at moving a few regional confused. Some stations contacted their As part of his Pre-Budget Report boundaries, prior to presenting the NHS Trusts, who raised the issue package, Chancellor Gordon Brown Executive Committee with some formal through the Health Facilities Managers has asked Andrew Gowers, former proposals for adoption under the new Association (HEFMA) to the Editor of the Financial Times, to review Regional Byelaws. At the November Department of Health. As a result, at the UK's intellectual property laws with EC meeting, he was proudly showing least some stations are staying on a view to ‘modernising copyright and off a map onto which he was marking Channel 6 for the foreseeable future. other forms of intellectual property so the location of all members! Others appear to have changed not to that they are appropriate for the digital Channel 45, but to Channel 1. age’. Conference Bursary The Executive Committee are trying The scope of the review looks like it Another of the Committee's annual to ascertain what Patientline's plans are may be an opportunity for us to suggest tasks is to review all the Terms of and will keep members updated as that hospital broadcasting be exempt Reference of the various things develop. from copyright fees. I will continue to subcommittees. This year, we have I believe we're also going to be monitor what is happening with a view decided to tweak those of the Bursary approaching one of the people at to preparing a submission when the subcommittee to allow it more flexibility HEFMA / Department of Health to see review panel issues a call for evidence.

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