John Gale King's College London Violet Meier Lewisham Healthcare NHS Trust

 South East London Health Libraries (SELLIB)  3 university libraries  4 libraries in acute trusts  2 mental health trust libraries  1 community trust library  1 hospice library

 Building on work from 2009 survey  Demonstrating our worth ◦ Funding ◦ Staff ◦ Space

 Online survey  Advantages  Disadvantages

Literature Reviews Both groups of patients and individuals Even borrowing books can have an impact on patient care

 Improving safety and reducing side effects  Legal as well as medical responsibilities  Patient choice  Academic work leading directly to improvements in clinical practice  A better qualified workforce having a direct impact on patient care

 Providing information for training sessions  Critical appraisal having a direct impact on patient care  Information being passed on through formal and informal networks  Revealing areas of ignorance in need of future research

 Providing the evidence to justify pilot studies for new treatments and initiatives  Providing evidence for clinicians to bid for money for new services  Affecting the way care is organised and which treatments are provided  Direct impact on the commissioning of services

 Finding material over and above what is available free to the end user  Rare and unusual conditions  Quick supply of information to support prompt decisions  Recognition of our work in managing e- journals  Anytime, anywhere access

 Finding information  Keeping up-to-date  Reservoir of peace and quiet for study

 Support for teaching  Finding material hard to get hold of elsewhere  Writing for publication  Research  Help with drawing up search strategies for systematic/literature reviews

 Demonstrates value of the library service  Shows how libraries are meeting organisational needs  Raises profile of the library  Highlights value of the library as a space  Shows benefits of collaboration

 Useful evidence for London library review and in local negotiations  Use of quotes in publicity materials  St Christopher’s – results presented to the Library Committee to show the libraries’ impact

 Can use the results to continue demonstrating impact  Short surveys are relatively easy to do – potential for repeating a similar exercise in two to three years’ time  Abstract submitted to HLG conference