Contact & Find Us

If you have a query our Frequently Asked Questions pages may have the answer. Otherwise to avoid delay please make sure you contact the appropriate department below with your IBMS membership number (for membership queries).

What to do if you have any comments about the Institute

For quality monitoring and improvement purposes we would like to know whether your contact resulted in a helpful outcome or if you believe our handling of your enquiry was not to a standard to which we aim to provide.

General contact details

Institute of Biomedical Science
12 Coldbath Square
London EC1R 5HL
United Kingdom

T + 44 (0)20 7713 0214
F + 44 (0)20 7837 9658
E mail@ibms.org

General Enquiries

All general enquiries including membership application forms as well as leaflet and publication requests please email mail@ibms.org with your query and your full contact details.

Promoting a message to our members
We can occasionally include relevant information (unfortunately not promotional messages from commercial companies) in our communications to members. If you are interested in reaching our members please contact mc@ibms.org with full details of:

what you are looking to promote,
who you are looking to reach (including location if relevant),
why they should be interested,
any time scale and time commitment (if relevant),
a little about you.

IBMS Chief Executive

Jill Rodney: mail@ibms.org

Department contact information

To contact departments by telephone please use the general number + 44 (0)20 7713 0214 and then follow further instructions.

Subscriptions and membership accounts
Changes to personal details, enquiries about membership accounts, subscription information
subscriptions@ibms.org

Membership applications
Membership applications, membership qualifications and application queries
mc@ibms.org

Registration Department
Registration, certificates of competence, external verifiers, laboratory training, assessments.
By fax: 020 7837 3286, marked for the attention of the Registration Unit.
registration@ibms.org

Education and workforce development
University liaison, accredited degree courses, clinical laboratory training policies, Free Student Member scheme, QAA benchmarking, national occupational standards, HPC registration issues and policy development for workforce planning issues.
education@ibms.org

Continuing Professional Development
Enquiries about joining the CPD scheme, registering events, validation, CPD advice, contacting local CPD officers
cpd@ibms.org

News and stories
Contact us if you have an interesting story to tell about your job or the profession.
news@ibms.org

Professional qualifications and exams
Enquiries about the Institute's Higher Specialist Diplomas, Diplomas of Expert and Extended Practice and the Advanced Specialist Diplomas.
qualifications@ibms.org

Specific contact information

Advisory panels: qualifications@ibms.org
Chartered scientists: chartered@ibms.org
College of Biomedical Science: qualifications@ibms.org
Company members: abbywright-parkes@ibms.org
Congress: congress@ibms.org
History: mc@ibms.org
IBMS Council: mail@ibms.org
Publicity, media and marketing: mc@ibms.org
Regions and branches: mc@ibms.org
Research grants, prizes and awards: qualifications@ibms.org
Scientific and discipline specific queries (for Institute Advisory Panels): qualifications@ibms.org
The Biomedical Scientist and British Journal for Biomedical Science editor: briannation@ibms.org
Website: jamieansell@ibms.org

IBMS standing committees

Information on the work of the standing committees can be found on the IBMS Council page.

Education and Qualification Committee: education@ibms.org
Membership Committee: mc@ibms.org

How to find us

Map location

Nearest underground stations:

Chancery Lane (Central Line)
Farringdon Road (Circle. Metropolitan, Hammersmith & City)
Kings Cross (Circle. Metropolitan, Hammersmith & City, Victoria and Piccadilly)

Nearest national rail: Kings Cross, Farringdon (Thameslink)

Buses:

63 - Farringon Road
19, 38, 341 - Rosebery Avenue
55, 24 - Clerkenwell Road

London area bus maps

Directions: from Farringdon Station

Turn right out of Farringdon Station.
Turn right into Farringdon Road heading north.
Walk for about 5 mins.
After the Eagles Pub turn left into Topham Street.
Coldbath Square is through the gates about 30 metres ahead of you.
Go through the gates and No 12 is the first on the left.

Directions from Kings Cross

Turn left out of the main entrance of Kings Cross or follow the signs for Thameslink.
Walk over the traffic lights down Pentonville Road. You will pass Kings Cross Thameslink station on your right.
Turn right up Kings Cross Road which bears away from Pentonville Road after the Thameslink station.
Follow Kings Cross Road as it swings sharply to the right and then turns into Farringdon Road.
At the crossroads Farringdon Road meets Rosebery Avenue. There will be a fire station opposite on the right hnd side of the crossroads.
Walk round the fire station to your right and turn down Topham Street.
Coldbath Square is about 30 metres down on the right-hand side.
Go through the gates and No 12 is the first on the left.