Our popular people performance management toolkit has been refreshed to include links to new guidance and useful resources.
People performance management matters. How well organisations do it can make a big difference to how staff feel about their job and impact on the quality of patient care delivered.
The toolkit encourages NHS managers to make time to talk about performance with staff.
One category on the Trip Database is ‘ongoing systematic reviews’. This content is taken from the PROSPERO database of ongoing systematic reviews. If you’re not familiar with PROSPERO this is how the site describes itself
The 2017 virtual issue of the Health Information and Libraries Journal (HILJ) is published to link to the 12th International Congress on Medical Librarianship and the 2017 EAHIL Workshop taking place in Dublin, Ireland on 12–16 June 2017. The conference title is Diversity in Practice: integrating, inspiring and innovative and it is exploring how health science librarianship, in all its diversity, is integrating, inspiring and innovating practice. These themes have been used to compile this virtual issue, which contains published articles selected from HILJ from the June 2014 issue through to September 2016. The virtual issue mirrors the format of a regular issue of HILJ, namely a review article, six original articles and our three regular features: ‘Dissertations into Practice’, ‘International Perspectives and Initiatives’ and ‘Teaching and Learning in Action’. All articles included in this virtual issue are available free online.
Results: Our results revealed that the Internet indeed constitutes a source of information for people searching the topic of ADHD, and that they search for information mostly about ADHD symptoms. Furthermore, individuals personally affected by the disorder made 2.0 more questions about ADHD compared with others. Questions begin when children reach 2 years of age, with an average age of 5.1 years. Most of the websites searched were not specifically related to ADHD and the timing of searches as well as the query content were different among those prediagnosis compared with postdiagnosis.
This new approach to leadership focuses on how students can develop leadership skills right from the start of their nursing programme through to transitioning to their first role. The book first takes students through the underpinning knowledge and theory and then through practical skills to help them understand all aspects of leadership and how it is a key component of providing quality care to patients in a range of environments and settings. Real stories from nursing leaders, practitioners and students are included to inspire students and show them how they can impact positively on practice, whatever level they are working at.
From September the newly revamped NHS Choices will become NHS.uk and the gateway to order repeat prescriptions, book appointments, register for a GP and find a pharmacy.
By the same date NHS.uk is also due to become the route for individuals to be able to access their GP records.
Turning your raw search results into a narrative report – one that enables your enquirer to reach a decision, make a recommendation or take action – is becoming the stock in trade of information professionals in a growing number of fields, including government, health services and law.
In this second in a series of two blog posts to mark the publication of the 7th edition of Successful Enquiry Answering Every Time, author Tim Buckley Owen reveals the benefits of using strategic reading techniques to draft reports and briefings.
#FactsMatter will launch on the 1st May and run concurrently with the 2017 General Election campaign. Throughout the campaign, CILIP will call on politicians and public figures to promote the need for evidence-based decision-making as a foundation of a strong, inclusive and democratic society.
The Knowledge and Legal Advice Centre (KnowLa) was set up following a review of the Trust’s legal services and went live earlier this month. The outcome of that review identified that there was an inconsistent approach to the way in which the Trust sought legal advice and how this information was then utilised and shared within the organisation.
The Trust originally envisaged that the system would just capture the advice received from solicitors, however whilst preparing for a CQC visit it became clear that there was the potential to create a system that would also capture knowledge and advice from the Trust’s internal specialists too.
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services in the Trust have teamed up with the charity Rethink to run a book group for young people.
But this is a book group with a difference – as we will try to get the author to come along too to talk about the book with you!We can provide copies of the book. All you have to do is read it and come along to the book group to share your thoughts.
The book group is a fun way to meet new people, talk about issues raised in the book and hear what others thought.It’s OK to have a different view to everyone else. In fact, it makes it more interesting when a book sparks lots of different responses!
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Staff at Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I) are carrying out cutting edge research using a groundbreaking “super” database with access to millions of pieces of data.
The Clinical Record Interactive Search (CRIS) system contains anonymous information about thousands of patients, including from other mental health trusts, which can now be analysed on a mass scale for large research projects that would previously have been impossible.
This study aimed to acquire knowledge about the factors affecting smartphone adoption for accessing information in medical settings in Iranian Hospitals.
New model for planning and structuring a training session, placing emphasis on the importance of doing. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details
Main Results – Overall, e-books purchased in packages had a 50% use rate and an average cost per use of $3.39, e-books purchased through firm orders had a 52% use rate and an average cost per use of $22.21, and e-books purchased through demand driven acquisitions had an average cost per use of $8.88 and 13.9 average uses per title. Package purchasing was cost effective for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) materials and medicine (MED) materials. Demand driven acquisition was a particularly good strategy for humanities and social sciences (HSS) titles.
Conclusion – This library’s expanded embedded library services led to an increased frequency of reference interactions, instruction opportunities, and opportunities for new collaborative and integrative activities between the liaison librarian and their subject area.
Conclusion – The roles of information professionals are continually changing, both in practice and in description. In particular, information professionals expanded their roles in teaching during the review period, shedding light on institutional and professional priorities.
NHS England has announced new funding for seven mental health trusts to enable these organisations to pioneer world-class, digital services to improve care for patients experiencing mental health issues.
This will include, for the first time, all key professionals involved in a patient’s care having access to real-time records – from triage and initial assessment, through to admissions or referrals, as well as transfer between services and follow up care.
The trusts will also develop remote, mobile and assistive technologies to empower patients to manage their conditions and enable family and carers to provide the best possible support.
This article is the first in a new series in this regular feature. The intention of the series is to look at important global developments in health science libraries. Librarians will be invited to share with HILJ readers key initiatives in their country or region. These articles should serve as a road map, describing the key changes in the field and exploring factors driving these changes. We initiate this series with an article by three Australian librarians who use research findings to depict the evolving professional landscape in their country. The starting point of their analysis is a report completed in 2011 which looked into likely future workforce and education requirements for health library professionals.
Failure to perform a comprehensive search when designing a systematic review (SR) can lead to bias, reducing the validity of review's conclusions.
We examined the frequency and choice of databases used by reviewers in clinical neurology.
Posters are a popular way of presenting information at conferences. However, little research has been conducted into their development, and the patterns and extent of their use are unclear.
A mapping review was performed to chart the development and utilisation of the poster medium, and to highlight the main literature themes and contributions.
The QR pods include codes linking patients directly to all of their online services such as their website and registration pages for online appointments and repeat medication.
As you can see in the diagram illustrating the pod design, the pods also have dedicated sections linking to their social media sites and a wealth of self help guides, educational videos such as antibiotic awareness and carers services, national and localised health promotional campaigns as well as localised services.
NHS specialists and patients have joined forces to launch the UKs first freely accessible app review website specifically aimed at Stroke and Brain Injury.
The website, which can be accessed at www.my-therappy.co.uk, helps people find the right app for their recovery and rehabilitation.
It offers a database of apps tested and recommended by clinical specialists and expert patients. The apps also come with a star rating and genuine user feedback and reviews.
Open access. Book review. Spirituality and Narrative in Psychiatric Practice: Stories of Mind and Soul Edited by Christopher C. H. Cook, Andrew Powell and Andrew Sims. RCPsych Publications, 2016, £30.00 (£27.00 for College members), pb, 204 pp. ISBN: 9781909726451
Telling stories is probably as old as human culture. Our ancestors used storytelling to entertain, instruct and make sense of their experience. A psychiatric history, when well taken, should be more than a fact-finding mission to provide a diagnosis and treatment plan. To be effective in providing treatment, helping with healing and promoting recovery, we need to know what matters to our patients. This includes the realm of belief and practice encompassed by the broad term spirituality. A book then that explores both spirituality and narrative is welcome.
Open access. Book review. The Other Side of Silence: A Psychiatrist's Memoir of Depression By Linda Gask Summersdale 2015, £9.99, pb, 272 pp. ISBN: 9781849537544
Linda Gask is an eminent academic psychiatrist with an outstanding international reputation. I state this upfront because it is none too obvious from this book – owing to her self-effacing style – and in my opinion, it is very relevant. I should also declare an interest as Linda and I were in the same year at Edinburgh University's medical school and I have heard small snippets of this story from her over the ensuing years.
We have been featuring apps of the week in the library and on Twitter and Facebook recently. In case you have missed any we are also including them in our blog posts. Here are the latest 3, NHS Smokefree, NHS Safeguarding and NHS Do OD which is about changing culture in the organisation.