Clinical librarian

KMPT have a dedicated Clinical Librarian: Mary Skingley (mary.skingley@nhs.net)

The clinical librarian service helps promote evidence-based practice, whilst supporting research, patient care, clinical and managerial decision making and support with CPD.

Who is the service for?

For anyone (e.g. consultants, nurses, allied health professionals, psychologists, technical staff, managers etc) who needs to find evidence to support their work and organisational objectives.

Benefits of a Clinical Librarian Service

Benefits to staff	Benefits to the Trust
Saving clinical time on decision-making. We call this the ‘gift of time’	Meeting service improvement targets
Providing quality-assured information at the point of need	Ensuring clinical and corporate services are supported by research
Supporting evidence-based practice	Supporting Trust quality and productivity objectives
Promoting good patient care and continuous	Promoting a questioning and learning culture

What services are included?

Our Clinical Librarian Services can offer a range of different services, tailored to meet your needs. ​

Evidence Searching

We can save you time by finding the relevant, up to date, high quality evidence that you need. Request an evidence search here.

Training

If you want to find out more about the Library and Knowledge resources available to you, and learn how to search for, and appraise them for yourself, then the Clinical Librarian can carry out training tailored to your need. Training can be in groups or 1-to-1. Training includes literature searching (basic or advanced), critical appraisal, accessing and navigating relevant resources, health literacy.

Journal Clubs and Reading Groups

The clinical librarian can provide advice and support with setting up (e.g. administration, promotion, selecting and sourcing articles and relevant appraisal checklist) and facilitating journal clubs, as well as providing training on how to critically appraise evidence.

We also offer regular skills sessions for nurses and allied health professionals who want to improve their search skills and gain confidence in reflective reading of articles. Contact mary.skingley@nhs.net to find out more.

Attend Departmental Meetings/Assist with Projects

The clinical librarian can attend your meetings to assess and help with any information requirements that arise. If you your team is working on a project (e.g. looking to introduce a new policy or change in practice, create an information campaign, or conduct service evaluation), we can help from the start by carrying out literature searches and finding the evidence you need to support your decisions.

Current Awareness

A monthly bulletin is circulated providing up to date research within mental health, and information on access to library resources. If you would like to be added to the emailing list please email mary.skingley@nhs.net

Please email Mary Skingley mary.skingley@nhs.net for information on training, literature searching or other clinical librarian services.