Primary Care and Public Health Librarians

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Primary Care and Public Health Librarians

• Support Programme

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Background

• 2003 Survey of librarians whose chief
  responsibility was to support primary care
  professionals
• v wide variations in quality of service
• significant need for support for these staff
• 2004 Launch of NLH partnership focus
• 2005 Connecting for Health quality focus

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1 Levels of service /standards

• Identify different levels of service for
  librarians working within PC and PH
• Identify standards for these
• Working within the NSDF for Library Knowledge
  Services

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Case study Milton Keynes tPCT

• Help to inform thinking re. national user
  standards for knowledge services within PC
• Raise the profile of local PC/PH library and
  information services wherever they are located
  MKGH, BSS, HPUs (TV SHA)
• Inform the development of new information
  services to PC/PH

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2. Professional development

• Contribute to work to identify meet development
  needs
• for primary care and outreach librarians
• Support colleagues within NLH as a member of
  HLG CPD panel

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3. Primary Care - CAS

• National resource Steering group
• RSS feeds into NLH

• Using Trent Information Network
• Collaborative work distributed authorship

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4. Models of service

• Case studies of different models CSFs for each
• How to integrate PC PH library information
  services into services whose main focus lies
  within a hospital or HEI?
• Liaison with LKDN visits

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5. Community PC PH Librarians

• Share good practice
• Promote collaborative working
• For Librarian space on NLH
• events

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6. Liaison with professional bodies

• Liaison with professional bodies representing
  primary care staff groups re. the information
  needs of their members

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7. Promoting supporting services

• Promote primary care and public health library
  and information services
• wherever they are located
• Jobs are at risk

• Working in partnership with NHS and Higher
  Education librarians
• Providing advice to PCTs SHAs on how best to
  develop support PC PH Librarians

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Liaison

• e-mail laceybryant_at_clara.co.uk
• 2 days pw - Nov 2007