Hospital Broadcasting Association

HBA provides advice and guidance to the management of the stations on all aspects of running a hospital broadcasting organisation. This is available via its website, its members' magazine, at national conferences, regional events and in response to specific enquiries. This expertise is vital to the stations, as many of a station's members will not have had previous experience in either broadcasting, running or managing an organisation.

The HBA also provides regular training events for those involved with the associations member stations; attracting guest speakers who have a wealth of professional experience in radio broadcasting and interview techniques, radio technology or the finer points of computer based broadcasting software. In addition HBA offers training and support on numerous administration elements of managing a charity. [1]

HBA represents hospital broadcasting at a national level, engaging with appropriate national organisations such as:

• the NHS
• the Dept of Health
• Ofcom
• the copyright collecting societies PPL, PRS and MCPS
• the charity regulators Charity Commission and OSCR
• the government's Office of the Third Sector

National Hospital Radio Awards 2022.

The HBA is a company limited by guarantee (number 2750147) and is registered as a charity (number 1015501) with the Charity Commission for England and Wales. Its official name is the National Association of Hospital Broadcasting Organisations, but adopted Hospital Broadcasting Association as its working name in the 1990s.

• Anglia
• Home Counties
• London
• Midlands
• North
• North West
• Northern Ireland
• Scotland
• South
• South East
• Wales & West
• Yorkshire