Jenny Emmel - From Acute to Mental – New Starter
Hello, my name is Jenny Emmel, and I started a new role in January as Knowledge Manager at Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust (BDCFT). Before this role I worked at Leeds Teaching Hospitals…
Hello from Carly Beattie - New Starter
Hello everyone, my name is Carly and I have recently joined the Library and Knowledge Services team at North Cumbria Integrated Care as a Library and Learning Technology Manager.…
Delivering an EBM package
The Library and Knowledge Service at East Cheshire NHS Trust has always offered sessions in topics such as evidence search, critical appraisal etc. The majority of these sessions delivered were 1:1 in…
Multi-site Delivery
Once every two years Keyll Darree Library run a user needs analysis survey. We pride ourselves on how responsive we are to feedback, and this year due to user comments we created a multi-site delivery system.…
Finding out what our users need from library and knowledge services post-pandemic
In March 2020 when the impact of the pandemic was starting to become clear, the Library and Knowledge Services at Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust closed the physical library space and the team began to work from home. Many of the services we were running were carrying on as before; with the Trust being spread over a large geographical area we’d been delivering some services virtually or remotely for a long time.…
Care Club Volunteer
Care Club is a scheme in our Trust where colleagues volunteer to work in clinical areas that are short staffed or need additional help and I have been a member for a couple of years.…
LIHNN Christmas Study Day, 6th December 2022, Manchester
I attended the LIHNN Christmas study last December, which was the first face-to-face LIHNN study day that’s taken place since COVID. It was so nice to be back seeing fellow library colleagues in…
HLG 75, October 2022: January Reflections
October last year might feel like ages ago, even though it’s really only a few weeks – Bolton is one of those Trusts where a lot happens in a week. Since the week of January when I’m writing this is known to be one of the toughest in the work calendar, I thought I’d cheer myself up by reflecting on HLG75, which I was able to attend in October courtesy of a LIHNN travel grant.…
Returning home to Greater Manchester - New Starter
Hello, I'm Lindsay Wallace, the new Library and Knowledge Services Manager at Northern Care Alliance. I was asked to introduce myself to colleagues, so here goes.…
Hello from Jodie Reeve - New Starter
Hello, my name is Jodie and I have recently joined the team at Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust as a Trainee Knowledge and Resource Librarian. So far I have had a terrific start and I am looking forward to learning more about the role and all it entails.…