The following extra support and training is available to King's College Hospital staff.
If you have any queries please contact one of your Clinical Support Librarians.

If you can’t get to the Library, then we will bring the Library to you at Denmark Hill. Contact us to arrange for a Clinical Support Librarian to come and spend time with your department, team, or ward. Whilst there, they can help with searches, carry out training, discuss staff information needs and how best to meet them, help arrange and facilitate journal clubs, assist with research/audit/quality improvement activity, academic study and nurse revalidation.

All Kings College Hospital staff can request support from the library team with your evidence search. This can include a member of our skilled team completing a search of the literature databases on your behalf or providing a briefer set of high quality resources such as evidence summaries.

The online request form will help you frame your question and consider the kind of evidence you require along with when you need it by.

A member of library staff will generally be in touch with you to discuss your request to ensure that it is appropriately managed.

The service is targeted particularly at searches that relate to patient care, service development and other decisions that are likely to impact larger numbers of patients (for example the development of new guidance or a patient safety initiative). If we are unable to help with your request we will be able to guide you to appropriate support options (this might be our skills training for those undertaking a study assignment).

Work with your librarians!

Health librarians and knowledge specialists ensure that decisions are based upon the best available evidence and encourage knowledge to be captured, shared and re-used.

Multiple benefits are possible for NHS staff and organisations when they work closely with health librarians and knowledge specialists:

• improving quality of care
• improving patient outcomes
• releasing clinician time for care
• saving money
• facilitating decision making
• enabling change and innovation
• improving understanding and knowledge

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Every day librarians and knowledge specialists bring the evidence and knowledge to inform #AMillionDecisons in healthcare. KCH staff request your Evidence/Literature Search today!