It's the first ever NHS knowledge and library services awareness week, designed to draw attention to all the work services like ours do to get evidence into practice from the board, to the bed-side, to support leaners and provide a place for everyone to get away from the busy ward or office environment (or even the car for community staff) and have space to think.
Taking the ‘heavy lifting’ out of bringing reliable, up to date evidence to healthcare, library teams free up the time of their colleagues. Knowledge specialists and librarians deliver the right information enabling multidisciplinary teams to make informed decisions at the right time, at the point of need.
In practice, this means that knowledge services give frontline teams the gift of time to focus on patients and ultimately improve patient care and outcomes. Backed by evidence, all NHS staff can be more confident they are making the right decisions.
We will be tweeting about this all week. You can follow us @NHFTNHSLibrary or you can search for the hashtag #KLSNAW to see what is going on in the wider NHS library community.
