Service update for Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust
It’s a strange year to look back on but we have achieved the following.…
Looking to the future: Learning from the response to Covid
Following the first wave of Covid, Tracey Pratchett was involved in a trust project to capture key learning to assist with planning for the second wave and inform organisational culture in the longer term. This piece discusses her involvement in the work and reviews the tools that they used to capture learning.…
North West Boroughs Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust update
We have had jigsaws and mindfulness colouring, in the Library for a while now. They have encouraged people from different staff groups, like nurses, consultants and porters, to visit the Library and get involved.…
Public Health Resource Centre - Yearly update
In October 2019, Andy Moore joined the team from Leeds Public Libraries. His new role is a two year post as Digital Projects Officer and he will be working on three projects: to create digital content that share key public health messages with workforce; to update the PHRC website; and to make improvements to the PHRC’s library management system. In December, Sally Hughes started as our Health Improvement Resource Assistant. Sally arrives from Leeds Public Libraries and her roles in the PHRC are dealing with customer enquiries, issuing stock, compiling leaflet & poster orders, promoting campaigns and running our Instagram account and then of course there will be lots of project work that will come up to get stuck into.…
“Improving the health and wellbeing of citizens of Leeds: strengthening links between libraries in Leeds”
Back in November 2019, and following the example from Manchester, we had an Away Day under the rather grand heading of “Improving the health and wellbeing of citizens of Leeds: strengthening links between libraries in Leeds”…
Update on changes and our year from Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust (PCFT) Knowledge Service
We are now a team of 4 people. Administrator (Matt Johnson), Knowledge Specialist:Liaison Lead (Rosalind McNally), Knowledge Specialist:Quality (Laura Jeffreys), Knowledge Specialist:Outreach (Stephen Edwards). Stephen started working with the team in December, 2019. Laura Jeffreys went on maternity leave in May this year. So our staffing is currently reduced. When the pandemic started a number of us also volunteered for the essential work created. At the time of writing we are now all back in our usual roles. In the last 12 months we have also had to respond to the changes at PCFT. The Trust no longer includes community services, and took the decision to become a Mental Health & Learning Disability Trust.…
Annual update from Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust
Like other services, we were running at full tilt, and then lockdown happened! However, we have not let this deter us. Here are some details of our activities over the last year:…
The Covid Whirlwind: JET Library Experience
It is challenging thinking back and to be honest it feels a little bit like a luxury. We talk about a ‘new normal’ but in reality, the library has always stumbled from one crisis to another. We have always adapted to the needs of the organisation. It will also continue to do so and what that looks like yet is still an unknown. What has been different for Covid, was despite being well placed; it still blew in and left us topsy turvy.…
Northern Library Managers Meeting - July 2020
Presentations from the virtual LKS Managers meeting - North. Held July 2020…
North Cumbria Library & Knowledge Service - Update
The year has largely been defined by the planning and aftermath of the merger of our LKS’s host Trust, North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust and its partner Cumbria Partnership, together with the moving of mental health services in the north to North Tyne & Wear NHS Trust and in the south to Lancashire Care NHS Trust. From 3rd October the Trust has had a new name and is now North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Trust.…