International Membership.

Intensive Care Psychiatry or Emergency Psychiatry is practiced all over the world in a range of different settings with a range of different types of organisations and different philosophies of care. NAPICU believes that standards and practice can continue to develop in the UK by learning how others provide care and identify areas of good practice. NAPICU continues to find ways in which good practice can be exchanged across the world. As a result NAPICU welcomes membership from all around the world. If you would be interested attending a NAPICU Regional Conference in Australia in 2010 then please do contact our International Liaison officer.

Benefits

Membership entitles members to vote at the organisation's Annual General Meeting where elections to the executive committee are made and on motions submitted to the AGM

'International Membership' does not entitle members to stand
for Executive Committee positions except that of ‘International Liaison Officer

Members are entitled to Discounted Rates for the Annual Conference.The conference is held in a different part of the United   Kingdom each year.Membership becomes self funding when an
organisation attends the Annual Conference and receives the discounted rate.

Free access to each of the ‘regional meetings’ held quarterly around different parts of the United Kingdom

Receive the Journal of Psychiatric Intensive Care Journal, 

Apply for a Travel Bursary to assist in the development of practice in Psychiatric Intensive and Low Secure care.

Members will be issued with a Username and Password for the
‘NAPICU Intrant, issued with an napicu.net email address and a free website facillityto promote your unit's achievements. 

Each Organisation can submit a profile the unit and description
of services which will be displayed in the ‘members only’ area of the NAPICU Website

Receive our frequent 'eNewsletter'.

Rates

Zone	Non Profit Organisation or NGO	For Profit Organisation	Individual Membership
Least Developing Countries	Free	£100	Free
Developing Countries	£100	£200	£100
Rest of the World	£200	£300	£200

United Nation Definitions

Least Developing

The United Nations define countries as those being 'Least Developing' in the following list:

Africa: Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, D. R. of the Congo, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Niger, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Togo, Uganda, U.R. of Tanzania, Zambia; Asia and the Pacific: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, Kiribati, Lao P.D.R., Myanmar, Nepal, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, ; Latin America and the Caribbean: Haiti..

Developing Countries:.

All countries not listed in the 'least developed' or developed groups are considered to be 'developing countries'

Rest of the World:.

Therefore the 'Rest of the World' and Developed Countries includes: Japan in Asia, Canada and the United States in northern America, Australia and New Zealand in Oceania and Europe , Israel and countries emerging from the former Yugoslavia, and the former USSR countries.

Information obtained from the United Nations

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