Dear colleagues
After extensive discussion at yesterday's AGM, Directors have reluctantly taken the decision no longer to allow organisations to request invoices with a purchase order.
This decision results from a number of Hospitals and Trusts delaying payments for several months and the increased time and effort we have to expend responding to enquiries and chasing payments. We are currently over £1,000 in arrears with payments for the last two meetings.
Those of you who can pay up front, either online (much preferred) or by cheque or BACS (preferred), will not be affected. If it helps you to get reimbursement before you need to settle your credit card account, we can issue a receipt by return email instead of including this in your meeting packs as we do for meeting fees.
Those of you who are unable to pay up front will need to arrange with your training officers and finance people for them to pay our fees by BACS (preferred) or cheque - in advance if for an event.
We realise that this may cause some inconvenience to a number of people, for which we apologise, but we see no alternative at present. We are exploring the possibility of enabling finance departments to pay by credit card through our website ecommerce system, but this may not be viable for the small number that may have this facility.
If you need help with regard to this, please get in touch.
Regards to all
Jonathan Middle (Chair)