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Maximising impact: how many Outreach Librarians does it take to target 60 sites?. Clare Payne Mersey Care Knowledge and Library Service. One and a motivated staff group. (with emphasis on the staff group). Mersey Care NHS Trust. Specialist mental health and learning disability services.
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Maximising impact: how many Outreach Librarians does it take to target 60 sites? Clare Payne Mersey Care Knowledge and Library Service
One and a motivated staff group (with emphasis on the staff group)
Mersey Care NHS Trust • Specialist mental health and learning disability services • Older peoples services • addictions services • forensic psychiatry services • Low, medium and high secure • 4500 staff • 60 sites
Allied Health Professionals • SALT, Dieticians, Physiotherapist and Occupational Therapists • Small group • Disproportionately influential • proactive • evidence based practice • innovative • seeks to find ways to adapt positively to change
Working together • Monthly Forum • Conference • Literature search service • AHP championing • Sept 2008 - Aug 2009 1 literature search • Sept 2009 - now 20 • Impact?
ScHARR Maximising the impact of your service • Importance of measuring impact • Selling ourselves • “in the competition for scarce resources, it becomes vital for libraries to show evidence of the impact and value of their services” Poll and Payne 2006 • What difference we make • Language • Outcomes • Assess the impact of literature searching on AHP Poll, R and Payne, P (2006). Impact measures for libraries and information services. Library Hi Tech 24 (4): 547-562 Preprint at http://conference.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/2006/proceedings/payne_poll_final_web.pdf
Profession specific Daily work regulatory bodies National Vision Organisational Trust objectives National outcomes for mental health Not forgetting.. EBP and clinical decision making Service User Centred Care CPD and Workforce Development Innovation, Quality, service improvement Financial and risk management Service User Outcomes AHP Processes and Raising the Profile of AHP Define the Outcomes
Overview • Interview • Positive findings • Relationship • Unexpected consequences • Competition • Promotional tool • Evidence • Impact information that they can use