Website facelift
CMF's website has had a facelift. The award-winning site at www.cmf.org.uk still includes the same extensive range of news, research material and information, but with a fresh new look.
Plans are already in place to develop the website still further, creating three sites to meet the needs of CMF's different audiences: a members' site, a communications site for the general public and an international site for those with a world mission focus.
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Use the website to:
- keep up to date with issues at the interface of faith and medicine
- encourage your faith and inform your practice
- link with colleagues in your area or specialty
- sign up for events
- buy books at CMF prices
Help CMF to grow and develop by encouraging your colleagues to visit the website and to join CMF. Also, look out for our summer communications survey so you can tell us what information and encouragement you need on the website and what formats are of most use to you.
At A Given Moment
A new book by Dr Graham McAll encourages doctors to share in the Christian faith.
Available from the CMF website now.
'At A Given Moment is a wonderful book that will teach you about introducing faith appropriately into your healthcare setting. This is a book you need to read, and I encourage you to do so.' (Bob Snyder, MD, President, International Health Services)
CMF Blog – what could you write for us?
Since launching in January, the CMF Blog has developed into a highly popular source of comment on all things Christian and medical. Our blog receives 14,000 page views a month and around 4,000 unique visitors. Content ranges from medical practice issues to global health and mission, with regular comment on public health, and start and end of life debates. A recent blog post on Dr Richard Scott, who is being investigated by the GMC for discussing faith with a patient, received over 2,000 hits.
All our posts are directly linked to Facebook and Twitter, making them easier to share and allowing them to reach a far bigger audience. If you're not on Facebook or Twitter you can subscribe to the blog via RSS, allowing you to get an email each time we update the blog. Look for the orange RSS logo on the homepage of the blog: www.cmfblog.org.uk
We're also very keen to encourage new contributors to write blog posts for us. Blogging is a great way for CMF to get a message or a newsworthy item out to the wider public alongside (and sometimes complimenting) our usual press coverage. More blog writers will bring a greater diversity of content and a fresher feel to our output. Could this be you? Our Media Producer, Andrew Horton, would like to hear your ideas. Contact him at andrewh@cmf.org.uk
Recruit a Friend Fellow Christians often ask CMF members for guidance on end-of-life care, abortion, infertility, contraception and a range of other healthcare issues. CMF wants to help Christians to address the growing number of issues at the interface of Christianity and medicine. We want to equip Christians to:
- make informed decisions about their own healthcare and the care of family members
- support doctors and other healthcare professionals as they seek to treat patients as whole people – body, mind and spirit
- engage in the national debate on issues which have a significant effect on the most vulnerable people in our society
- respond with Christ's compassion to the healthcare needs of the poor, vulnerable and marginalised worldwide
Now non-medics can become 'Friends of CMF' free of charge.Friends will receive regular email updates on public health, medical practice, global health and mission, plus start and end of life healthcare issues, addressed from a biblical perspective.
Friends of CMF can sign up at www.cmf.org.uk
More copies of the card and extra copies of Triple Helix are available to give away; email pubs@cmf.org.uk to place an order.
