Library events

The Clinical Librarian Services brings the library to health professionals, at the point of need or patient care. This involves embedding the service within a team and can include a range of outreach activities such as attending departmental, team or clinical meetings. In this way we can build relationships with you,  better understand your information needs,  and help find good evidence to support patient care.

‘The Clinical Librarian Service has enhanced integrated working and strengthens the evidence base of the infant feeding practices and initiatives to support our UNICEF UK Baby Friendly standards gold accreditation.’ Sue Taylor, ESTH Infant Feeding Lead.

The Clinical Librarian provides evidence summaries, which synthesise and summarise literature search results, to inform decision making and identifies examples of good practice to improve patient care. Some of the evidence summaries have been used to inform service delivery, funding bids and training development. 

Evidence summaries can also be provided to support Grand Round presentations. Grand Round presentations (link to the GR on https://www.epsom-sthelier.nhs.uk/keeping-up-to-date) that are shared with us are catalogued and available internally, to facilitate the sharing of expertise across the Trust.

The Clinical Librarian also delivers bite-size training to support evidence based healthcare, such as evidence searching and critical appraisal.