A policy briefing aimed at healthcare professionals is available for LKS staff to share in their own organisations. This has been produced and shared by the JET Library, Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Please feel free to reproduce it (with acknowledgement to JET Library) for your own purposes.
Impact on library policy/practice: Evidence based practice is embedded in the delivery of high quality care and this is where NHS libraries can support improvements. Libraries should understand the areas in which their organisations require improvement and develop services to support these. In our organisation, the quality and accessibility of policies was identified as an area for improvement and our service supports this agenda by attending meetings, providing literature searches and administering the platform for accessing documents.
Source: Care Quality Commission
Publication format: pdf
Date of publication: October 2017
Summary of driver: This is the annual assessment of health and social care in England. The report looks at trends and highlights examples of good and outstanding care whilst also highlighting what factors contribute to this success. Despite a challenging climate, the quality of care has been maintained and many services have transitioned from requiring improvement. “However, as the system continues to struggle with increasingly complex demand, access and cost, future quality is precarious.”