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What does this mean for libraries?
- Increase in community and primary care staff provides opportunities for library services to deliver services to these staff.
- Greater integration may mean libraries working across organisational boundaries.
- Providing services to ensure that improvement, innovation and learning opportunities are enhanced.
- Ensure that the entire workforce has access to the right evidence at the right time.
Source: Department of Health and Social Care
Date of publication: 17 January 2018
Summary of driver: This mandate from the Department of Health and Social Care sets out their objectives for Health Education England to deliver health education and training. The mandate also discusses workforce planning requirements to provide compassionate healthcare for patients. The mandate includes the following 6 key objectives:
- Develop the workforce to improve out of hospital care
- Create the safest, highest quality health and care services
- Deliver value for money
- Prevent ill health and support people to live healthier lives
- Build the workforce for the future
- Improve services through the use of digital technology, information and
transparency