IFMH
Inform Volume 15, Number 2
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CONTENTS:
Exploiting the power of knowledge in NHS Scotland: managing
knowledge to support the patient journey
Ann Wales,
Library Service Development Co-ordinator,
NHS Scotland
The
Health Libraries Group conference in Belfast provided a
welcome opportunity to present the strategic vision and practical
reality of managing knowledge to support the patient journey in
NHS Scotland.
Knowledge networks: use of concept mapping to
support library and knowledge services effective collaboration to
meet user needs
Annette Thain,
Project Manager,
NHS Education for Scotland
From a presentation given as part of a parallel
session ‘Are we being effective?’ at the
HLG 2004 in Belfast.
Improving the health of the dragon: providing access to evidence
for health policy officials
Amanda Hicks and Rebecca Davies,
Assembly Library Service,
Welsh Assembly Government
To provide an overview of the access to evidence
that the Assembly Library Service provides to health policy
officials in the Welsh Assembly Government it's useful to give
some background on:
This
article is based on a presentation from the IFMH hosted session "Supporting
health policy makers in evidence based practice" at the
HLG Conference 2004. The presentation can be downloaded from
here.
Mental Health Librarians join forces to improve
library services for Psychiatry in the West Midlands
Hélène Gorring,
Coventry
Teaching Primary Care Trust,
Clare Shemilt,
Birmingham
& Black Country SHA Workforce Development,
and
Richard Parker,
Birmingham
and Solihull Mental Health Trust
This
presentation at
HLG
2004
outlined the work carried out by a
programme
improvement group of West Midlands Mental Health Librarians to
improve access to knowledge resources and library services for
psychiatry and mental health services in the region and to develop
the specialist knowledge of the mental health librarians.
IFM Healthcare News Julie
Glanville, Acting Chair, Information
for the Management of Healthcare (IFMH)
IFMH Committee meeting: 25th
May 2004: digest of minutes
Karen Macpherson, Secretary, Information for the Management of
Healthcare (IFMH)
Clinical
librarianship: resource guide
Bertha Yuen Man Low, West
Midlands Library Services Development Unit
‘Clinical
Librarianship’ is one of the many topics covered by the last
Health Libraries Group Conference ‘Variety is the Spice of Life’.
This section highlights two presentations and related resources.
Surf's Up - Internet sites of interest
Caron Hartley, Research
Librarian, King's Fund Information and Library Service, and Anthea
Sutton, Information Officer (Reviews and Special Projects),
SCHARR.
Sidelines
Steve Duffy, Julie Glanville, Su Golder, Kate Light, Lisa Mather
and Vickie Orton,
Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, University of York
The
Sidelines abstracts in this issue of Inform comprise a wide
ranging mix of research and opinion on the impact of ICT on
patients, healthcare professionals, and publishing. In addition
there are abstracts on the reporting of research evidence, search
filters and public health indicators.
The National Library for Health: What can you expect? Alison Turner,
Library
Partnership Co-ordinator, National electronic Library for Health (NeLH)
NLH Management News Lynette Cawthra, Joint Project Manager,
NLH Management
National
electronic Library for Health Management Briefing 01/08: NHS
Structure: the impact of devolution
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