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Library Outreach at Southampton General Hospital

Providing literature searching, advice, and training in searching techniques for NHS staff. Offering full library services and support to various clinical directorates. Enhancing access to evidence-based information for informed clinical care.

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Library Outreach at Southampton General Hospital

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  1. Library Outreach at Southampton General Hospital Elizabeth Robertson Clinical Sciences Librarian/ Outreach Librarian

  2. Health Services Library • University Library • Service Level Agreement to provide library services to SUHT staff • Provides full services to community trust staff working on SGH site • Library Manager + 3 fte Professional staff

  3. Southampton University Hospitals Trust • 1100 beds • 6,500 NHS staff • 15 directorates • 4 hospitals

  4. Clinical Governance- • Information needs • Outreach Librarian • Literature searching • Advice and training in Searching techniques • Current contents services relating to individual disciplines

  5. Proposal • All directorates asked • £4k/year for a day/week librarian • £2k top up from RDSU • Newly qualified librarians to be appointed working under auspices of Health Services Library staff

  6. Participating directorates • Clinical support • Ophthalmology • Personnel • Occupational Health • Pathology • RDSU

  7. Starting • Telephone calls to CSMs and department managers • Publicity leaflets for circulation with Directorate briefings

  8. Clinical support • Pharmacy • Physiotherapy • Medical Physics and bioengineering • Nutrition and Dietetics • Occupational therapy • Podiatry

  9. Clinical support • Attendance at directorate briefings and receipt of minutes of meetings • Part of Directorate plan • 1 hour Awareness sessions as part of departments professional development and training programmes (12-20) • Searching skills sessions for small groups

  10. Ophthalmology • Worked in Eye Unit library 3 hours/week • Attended business meeting,found information to support business case for new service development • Awareness training to large groups • Internet training for groups of 1-3 • Literature searches for staff • Development of Internet page giving access to Squint journals

  11. Personnel • Awareness sessions for groups of staff • Increased involvement with inductions of Health Care assistants, Filipino nurses • Increased involvement with NVQ courses and IMC courses-introduction to library resources, using the internet

  12. Occupational Health • Searching • Developing guidelines • Teaching resources • Document delivery

  13. Pathology • Awareness sessions • Searching skills • Items in Newsletter • Support for Students

  14. Research and Development • Circulated details of OVID with newsletter • Referred some research proposers for help with searching

  15. Evaluation • None

  16. Outcomes • Awareness of access to, and the importance of, evidence based information for informing clinical care • Increased awareness of service library can give to support delivery of care • Increased confidence of using the “Named Librarian” “Our directorate librarian”

  17. Outcomes • Project increased library’s knowledge of directorates and trust as a whole. • Complexities of local health economy • Opened up avenues of communications

  18. Future role of the Library • Programmes of information skills training to all as part of the IM&T programme • More active role in all staff induction • Working out library role in supporting clinical effectiveness teams

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