INTERVIEW
Delivering innovation and supporting healthcare through a crisis
This year more than most, the role of knowledge in the NHS has come to the fore. As the world has responded to the most significant health crisis of modern times, the dissemination, interpretation and appli- cation of evidence, knowledge and insight has led the fight against Covid-19. Sue Lacey Bryant, National Lead for NHS Knowledge and Library Services, talks to CILIP Chief Executive Nick Poole about how NHS Library information teams have supported services throughout the crisis.
IT’S no surprise that the role that NHS knowledge and library services play in shaping the decisions of frontline teams is coming into sharp focus. (Celebrated between 14 and 18 June during the first ever NHS Knowl- edge and Library Services Awareness Week.) However, it isn’t just clinical responses for which England’s net- work of NHS library teams provide the evidence.
An information scientist and librarian by profession, Sue Lacey Bryant is a vocal champion of the role that knowledge plays in the success of the NHS – in every regard. As the national lead for NHS Knowledge and Library Services, Sue leads a pioneering strategy to deliver Knowledge for Health- care, placing knowledge at the core of NHS decision-making, equipping colleagues with valuable evidence and enabling teams to share their learning from experience. Building on the first five years of work, Knowledge for Healthcare 2021-2026 was launched earlier this year.
Expertise in action
“Applying knowledge into action is the currency of a successful healthcare organi- sation. But we know that evidence does not speak for itself – it needs to be mobilised at the right time and through the right people
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Nick Poole is (@nickpoole1) is Chief Executive of CILIP.
www.cilip.org.uk
to make a difference in decision-making,” explains Sue.
“Helping NHS bodies, staff, learners, patients and the public to access and use the right knowledge at the right time, in the right place to inform decision making and drive delivery of excellent healthcare and health improvement, is at the core of our work. “It’s the expertise of our library teams that actively mobilises knowledge. Above and beyond enabling staff and trainees to pull down the evidence they need, and pushing out targeted and tailored information about research to health professionals, increas- ingly knowledge specialists are aligned to multidisciplinary teams. They enable NHS organisations to make an asset of the
June 2021
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