1. Knowledge for Healthcare
David Stewart
Director of Health Libraries NW
UHMLG 6 March 2015

3. Why did HEE ask for a strategy?
Because we asked for £2,000,000 recurrent over three years for national core content

4. Why is it important? 1970; 1997; 2008 …. What are these?
It’s a strategy
Its got HEE’s logo on the front cover
It’s published
There are resources to support implementation

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6. Our vision
“NHS bodies, their staff, learners, patients and the public use the right knowledge and evidence, at the right time, in the right place, enabling high quality decision-making, learning, research and innovation to achieve excellent healthcare and health improvement.”

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8. Partnerships are central to success
To ensure a consistent, equitable, funded core service offer to learners and staff, and offer coordinated information to patients and the public, we will build and foster effective partnerships nationally and locally.
We are committed to learning from and partnering with other NHS bodies and external organisations alike.
We will strengthen working relationships across the library community.
A coherent approach is needed to deliver our vision and optimise investment in products and services in the best interests of staff, learners, patients and the public.

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10. Knowledge for Healthcare
Proactive customer-focused knowledge services are provided and used.
Staff, learners and patients benefit from quick and easy access to relevant evidence at the point of need.
There is effective leadership, planning and development of the LKS workforce.
Investment in library and knowledge services is optimised for best value.

11. Implementation Programme Manager – from 1st March - Louise Goswami
Senior Advisor - Sue Lacey Bryant
£100,000 programme budget in 2015/16
New LKSL working groups with task and finish groups
Communications and engagement plans

12. Quick and easy access to evidence
Optimise funding
Partnership working across NHS bodies towards pooling budgets
Planned investment
Centralised and collaborative procurement
Research into ROI
Sustainable, equitable funding model
Quick and easy access to evidence
Partnership working to extend reach and access
Procure and manage more e-resources at national level
Develop knowledge hub
Review document delivery services
Influence IT strategy and policy
Proactive knowledge services
Partnership working to expand knowledge services and knowledge management
Review services; ensure consistent core offer; recommend service redesign and reconfiguration.
Increase use of clinical/outreach librarian model
Rationalise, share information products, and standardise approaches –alerting services, training materials
Review ‘back-office’ functions; promote streamlining
Lean, collaborative approaches to product development
Implement common marketing strategy
Promote joined-up approach to information for patients and carers
Knowledge services workforce
National CPD programme to enhance skills at all levels
Encourage role redesign
Strengthen national - LETB leadership team
Talent management
Quality and impact
Accreditation; refresh LQAF,
Refresh metrics
Refresh Impact toolkit
Build evidence base

13. Next steps
This development framework provides the basis for more detailed conversations with partners about the challenges and opportunities ahead. We are committed to dialogue as we shape the NHS library and knowledge services of the future.
We invite stakeholders to work with us to transform and optimise healthcare library and knowledge services, harness new technologies, and champion service development and re-configuration, thereby extending their reach, maximising value for money. We will welcome your feedback on these questions:
What is working well with current LKS provision?
Which parts of the vision most resonate with you?
What can we do together?

14. How to get involved
To explore ideas on how you can get involved in delivering Knowledge for Healthcare please contact:

15. Knowledge for Healthcare
For further information:

16. Thank you Any questions David.stewart@nhs.net/