1 / 14

The South East London Health Libraries’(SELLIB) Impact Survey 2011

The South East London Health Libraries’(SELLIB) Impact Survey 2011. John Gale King's College London Violet Meier Lewisham Healthcare NHS Trust. Collaboration across sectors. South East London Health Libraries (SELLIB) 3 university libraries 4 libraries in acute trusts

marcus
Download Presentation

The South East London Health Libraries’(SELLIB) Impact Survey 2011

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. The South East London Health Libraries’(SELLIB) Impact Survey 2011 John Gale King's College LondonViolet MeierLewisham Healthcare NHS Trust

  2. Collaboration across sectors • South East London Health Libraries (SELLIB) • 3 university libraries • 4 libraries in acute trusts • 2 mental health trust libraries • 1 community trust library • 1 hospice library

  3. Why? • Building on work from 2009 survey • Demonstrating our worth • Funding • Staff • Space

  4. How? • Onlinesurvey • Advantages • Disadvantages

  5. Improving Patient Care • Literature Reviews • Both groups of patients and individuals • Even borrowing books can have an impact on patient care

  6. Improving Patient Safety • Improving safety and reducing side effects • Legal as well as medical responsibilities • Patient choice • Academic work leading directly to improvements in clinical practice • A better qualified workforce having a direct impact on patient care

  7. Keeping staff up-to-date • Providing information for training sessions • Critical appraisal having a direct impact on patient care • Information being passed on through formal and informal networks • Revealing areas of ignorance in need of future research

  8. Improving the provision of health care • Providing the evidence to justify pilot studies for new treatments and initiatives • Providing evidence for clinicians to bid for money for new services • Affecting the way care is organised and which treatments are provided • Direct impact on the commissioning of services

  9. Going the extra mile • Finding material over and above what is available free to the end user • Rare and unusual conditions • Quick supply of information to support prompt decisions • Recognition of our work in managing e-journals • Anytime, anywhere access

  10. Helping readers gain qualifications • Finding information • Keeping up-to-date • Reservoir of peace and quiet for study

  11. Continuing professional development • Support for teaching • Finding material hard to get hold of elsewhere • Writing for publication • Research • Help with drawing up search strategies for systematic/literature reviews

  12. Conclusions • Demonstrates value of the library service • Shows how libraries are meeting organisational needs • Raises profile of the library • Highlights value of the library as a space • Shows benefits of collaboration

  13. What have we done with it? • Useful evidence for London library review and in local negotiations • Use of quotes in publicity materials • St Christopher’s – results presented to the Library Committee to show the libraries’ impact

  14. What next? • Can use the results to continue demonstrating impact • Short surveys are relatively easy to do – potential for repeating a similar exercise in two to three years’ time • Abstract submitted to HLG conference

More Related