#ukmedlibs chat July – Knowledge and Library Staff Supporting Systematic Reviews

July’s #ukmedlibs chat is all about how Knowledge and Library staff support systematic reviews. Is it a service you offer? Have you had your name included in the authors list? Do we have the skills we need to deliver high quality systematic reviews? Join us at 12.30 on Tuesday 19^th July to chat all things systematic reviews. The questions we will follow are: 

1. Does your library take an active role in supporting NHS staff with systematic reviews? If so, what does this involve? 

2. How confident do you feel in supporting the delivery of systematic reviews? 

3. What training or support would you like in order to feel confident delivering this service? 

4. Do you promote this as one of your services? If so, how? 

5. What cohort of staff tend to ask for help with systematic reviews, and do you think they fully understand the process? 

6. How could we increase the profile of KLS and staff in the delivery of systematic reviews? 

7. Should systematic review support be core KLS offer? 

Tuesday 19^th July 12.30 use the hashtag #ukmedlibs and follow us @ukmedlibs  

#UKmedlibs on Tuesday 21st June – it’s all about supporting community staff!

Join us on Tuesday 21st June at 12.30pm for this months lunchtime #UKmedlibs twitter chat. We will have an interactive discussion on how health librarians can support community staff in their Trust. This is your opportunity to join the conversation, ask questions (and steal ideas!) on how other librarians are engaging with community staff.

The questions will be….

1. What engagement do you have with community staff in your NHS library service? Are there any groups in particular?
2. Have you found community staff have different information needs to acute care staff?
3. Is there any collaboration with mental health trusts? If so, how does this work and what does this look like. If not, is there a reason?
4. Are you providing specific outreach projects aimed at community staff? If so, what does this involve?
5. What are the barriers for community staff using the NHS library service?
6. In your opinion how could NHS libraries promote their services better to community staff?
7. Have you had any contact or experience of working with any HEE primary care knowledge specialists in your area? What can we learn from them?
8. Have you sourced any funding to support these groups of community staff? What did the process involve?

Looking forward to seeing you there!

#HIW2022 twitter chat for #UKmedlibs at 12:30pm on Tuesday 17th May.

Health Information Week, #HIW2022, will be here before you know it!

Whether you’re a newbie or a well-seasoned pro, join the #UKmedlibs chat to share your ideas and enthusiasm and get inspired for this years event.

Join us for a lunch time chat and find some ideas to steal!

The questions will be..

1. What are your plans for #HIW2022?
2. What are your top tips for anyone who is new to #HIW2022?
3. Will you be using the daily themes, or will you do your own thing and why?
4. How will you be promoting HIW2022 ahead of the week itself?
5. Are you planning in-person or virtual activities, or a combination of both?
6. Are you collaborating with any other teams or organisations during #HIW2022? If so, who and why?
7. #HIW2022 also covers two weekend days – how are you tackling these if you don’t work at the weekend?
8. What would you like from the national HIW team to make #HIW2023 even better?

The #UKmedlibs team and the #HIW2022 team would love to see you there!

#UKmedlibs tweet chat on Tuesday 26th April – Nurses and LKS.

Join us for an interactive discussion exploring the role of health librarians in supporting nurses with information literacy and implementing evidence-based practice. This chat will focus on nurses as your host for this chat will be @holmesrachelj from Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust; she is completing her Masters research dissertation on this subject and would be very interested to learn how other health libraries are tackling this issue.

The subject has come up in online several discussions recently e.g. on the LIS medical chat and in an HLG research presentation, so this is your opportunity to join the conversation and ask questions about how other librarians are supporting nurses in their Trusts and learn from each other.

We will start with an icebreaker! Introduce yourself and confess how few chocolate Easter eggs you have left already!

And the questions will be:

1.         In your experience where do nurses prefer to get their information from?
2.         What do nurses use your library for?
3.          How do you anticipate the information needs of the nurses you support?
4.         What is your experience with IL teaching for student nurses and qualified nurses?
5.           Do you adapt your current training for nurses or do you have any specific training courses for nurses?
6.         What are the barriers for implementing EBP for nurses? How could the library support and help resolve this?
7.         Do you have any outreach projects especially aimed at nurses or could a current project be adapted?
8.         In your opinion, how can libraries promote their services better to nurses of all grades and experience?

We look forward to seeing you there!”

#UKmedlibs chat on Health Literacy on 15th March at 12:30pm

Join us for an interactive discussion exploring Health Literacy. Knowledge and Library Services in the healthcare sector know how crucial good Health Literacy skills are for underpinning patient decision-making and co-creation of care. They also enable the public (inclusive of all gender, cultural and intellectual backgrounds and abilities) to access and process information in a way which allows them to take ownership of their long-term health and wellbeing.

This is your opportunity to join the conversation and ask questions about how other librarians are supporting these skills in their Trusts, and for the wider public too.

The chat will be hosted by @SamanthaClare and we will be joined by members of the @HealthLitKLS team including @slaintesiobhan and @LibraryLyns.

We will start with an icebreaker! Introduce yourself and tell us: what are you eating this lunchtime?

And the questions will be:

1. In your opinion, what is the best way to support each other to develop health literacy training skills?
2. What success have you had in rolling out health literacy projects in your Trust?
3. Have you successfully engaged with particular groups?
4. What has worked for you in regards to advertising/marketing Health Literacy training?
5. Do you use stats or real-life stories as examples in your training?
6. How do you feel about reaching out to local communities beyond NHS Trusts?
7. What advice would you give to someone who is new to supporting health literacy?
8. What have you gained from participating in today’s tweet chat? What will you do differently as a result?

We look forward to seeing you there!

#UKmedlibs chat on the Knowledge Hub and native interfaces – Tuesday 15th Feb 12:30pm

The next #UKmedlibs chat will take place at lunch time on Tuesday 15th February and will cover both the Knowledge Hub and the introduction of the native database interfaces as a replacement for HDAS (with apologies to our overseas twitter folk as this will be a very UK (or even England) centric discussion.

The questions are as follows:

1 – How are you promoting the Knowledge Hub?

2 – How will you offer training/support for using the Knowledge Hub?

3 – What are your successes in working with the Knowledge Hub?

4 – How will you offer training/support for the native interfaces?

5 – What training or guides have you found useful in using the native interfaces?

6 – How have you been able to integrate LibKey or other tools to help with this?

7 – What are you successes in working with the native interfaces?

8 – How are you planning to promote the native interfaces?

9 – How can we support each other to work in the Knowledge Hub or the native interfaces?

Rather a lot of questions this time, but we think that the two topics go together and is obviously of importance to NHS England library staff and users at the moment.

Bring your lunch and come and join us for a chat, share your experiences and lighten the load with everybody.

Tuesday 18th January 8pm – International Clinical Librarian Conference

Happy new year!

Join us for a discussion about the International Clinical Librarian Conference that took place in November. Led by Pip Divall and Lucy Sinclair, the chat will take place at our old evening time of 8pm for January to be inclusive for different time zones.

This is a great opportunity to catch-up with other librarians and have a conversation about the conference.

Questions for the chat are:

1)     Has the International Clinical Librarian conference led to any reflection on practice/ service within your team/ library?

2)     Have any of the best practice initiatives described at ICLC sparked any changes in your own library service – library ambassadors, embedded librarians, etc.

3)     Are there any resources you have accessed as a result of the conference that you previously haven’t used? How useful has this been?

4)     Have you used the conference as a springboard to connect with other clinical librarians/ attendees?

5)     Have you started working with their trust on ‘sustainability’, as per a presentation at the conference?

6)     What do you think is the unique selling point (USP) of CLs during the pandemic and in the post-pandemic age?

7)   Is there anything you’ve been doing differently as a CL since the pandemic began that you plan to continue?

#UKMedlibs #E4QI lunchtime tweetchat on Wednesday 17th November 12:30pm.

Join us for an interactive discussion on using evidence to improve the quality of patient care. Librarians and Knowledge Specialists play an integral role in making information accessible and putting it to good use, so we will discuss how to use knowledge for quality improvement (QI).

This is your opportunity to join the conversation and ask questions about how other Trusts support QI with evidence. We will be joined by members of the @Evidence4QI team including @andreadgibbons and @PhoenixAutumn.

The chat prompts will be:

1 How has using knowledge and best practice helped QI projects in your organisation?
2 What is your elevator pitch for why QI teams should use knowledge and evidence in QI projects?
3 In your opinion, what are the key priorities for QI teams and projects in your organisation?
4 Do you have someone in your organisation that is a champion for using evidence and knowledge for QI?
5 How has the creation of ICS’s (Integrated Care Systems) affected the relationship between your QI team and your KLS team and how you support QI?
6 Is the QI Evidence Update shared with people working in QI in your organisation? How can we improve it/get it out to more people?
7 What advice would you give to someone who is new to QI on how they can use evidence and knowledge to help them?
8 What have you gained from participating in today’s tweet chat? What will you do differently as a result?

We’d love to see you there to discuss all things Quality Improvement!

Reflective Practice for Library & Information Professionals – Tuesday 19th October 12.30pm

This month we are discussing reflective practice for library and information professionals. Questions for the chat are:

1. What do you know about reflective practice?
2. What is the value of reflection as a professional tool for Library and information professionals?
3. How can we be reflective? Do you know of any LIS models?
4. What do you do with the reflection once it has been done? How do you mobilise the knowledge gained from reflection to support your career/service?
5. How could we use appraisal to support reflective practices?
6. As NHS Librarians we can be exposed to potentially distressing situations, how could reflective practice help us as a profession deal with these situations?
7. How can we encourage LIS Professionals to engage with reflective practice more regularly?

Join us for our September #UKmedlibs chat on new library professionals in health librarianship

Join us on Tuesday 21st September at 12:30pm

This month we are discussing new professionals in health librarianship. Questions for the chat are:

1. As a profession, how can we help our new professionals settle into health librarianship?
2. What attracts newly qualified library professionals to the NHS or other health related sectors in the first place?
3. Are there any skills that are specialist to health library professionals? How do you think newly qualified librarians can develop these.
4. How can we enable new professional development?
5. What do you wish you knew as a new professional? Do you have any advice?
6. How long can you call yourself a new professional?
7. Is recruiting to new professional posts difficult?