1. HEE Knowledge for Healthcare: The High Profile Health Libraries Advocacy Toolkit
health-libraries OR
A summary and some things to consider
for HEE South Library & Knowledge Managers' Meeting 21st April 2016

2. Brief introduction including tools in action
Aim : Raise awareness of the KfH High Profile Health Libraries Advocacy Toolkit
Outline:
Brief introduction including tools in action
Discussion of advocacy tools and effectiveness
Action planning to develop our own advocacy messages
Hopefully by the end of the session you will:
understand how components of the toolkit can help with advocacy for your own LKS
reflect upon when advocacy has been used and consider adding examples to the toolkit
identify some key actions to raise the impact of your own service
More crucial with publication of the Carter Report likely to bring services under even more scrutiny as Trusts seek to make cost efficiencies

3. Finding the right message to persuade a stakeholder to renew a service level agreement to continue to receive an NHS library service

4. lksadvocacy.pbworks.com/
The toolkit available from an open wiki and the KfH blog presents as range of resources, tips and examples of how these can be used to ‘make the case’ for health libraries. Further contributions of tools and case studies are welcome and should be sent to Sarah Greening

5. Some of the tools in the tookit

6. DISCUSSION:
In pairs use the hand-out template to:
Either record the challenge you identified in your preparation template for today's meeting, or another issue, and consider how you would use aspects from the toolkit to advocate for your service
Or think about a time when you have used advocacy successfully and summarise
Where has advocacy worked successfully for you and why?
Where could you use advocacy to raise the profile of your service?
Have you used advocacy and not had the outcome you wanted – what could you do differently?

7. So what.....something for the train journey home
What three things are you going to do when you get back to your desk?
Don’t forget to SHARE your examples of using advocacy on the toolkit