Collaboration to show impact of information skills training Stephen Ayre, Clinical Librarian, George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust.

Background: The NHS in England

• Variety of organisations– Acute Hospital Trusts– Community Services– Mental Health Trusts– Commissioners– General Practice

• Variety of professional groups

Background: Libraries in the NHS 1

• 2008 Hill Report* identified four key functions of NHS Libraries:– clinical decision making– commissioning decisions and policy

making– life-long learning by all NHS staff– research.

*Peter Hill. Report of a National Review of NHS Health Library Services in England: From knowledge to health in the 21st Century. http://www.libraryservices.nhs.uk/document_uploads/NHS_Evidence/national_library_review_final_report_4feb_081.pdf

Background: Libraries in the NHS 2

• Small services– George Eliot Hospital

• 4 staff• 1422 registered users• 138 users received training in 2011-2

– Derby Hospitals• 15 staff• 2384 registered users • 441 users received training in 2011-2

The Problem

• Need to demonstrate impact…

• …small sample sizes.

The Solution

• Collaborate with other Library Services!

NHS Midlands Regional Trainers’ Forum

• Informal support network of librarians in training roles in the NHS.

• West Midlands Group set up in 2009.

• West and East Midlands groups joined together in 2012.

• Annual conference

• Project groups

• http://wish.westmidlands.nhs.uk/groups/regional-trainers-group.html

Training Impact Project

• Aimed to devise a survey tool that could be used across several library services

• Data to be collated

• Questions combined from existing surveys in use by NHS libraries in Birmingham, Solihull and the Black Country and Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Impact of Education:Kirkpatrick Hierarchy (modified)

Source: Working in Partnership Programme http://www.wipp.nhs.uk/tools_gpn/unit6_education.php [11.7.2012] Crown copyright.

Methodology

• Survey Monkey questionnaire link http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/29K9XFL sent a few weeks after training (Kindly provided by NHS South Central)

• Adopted as part of the impact toolkit of NHS Library Services England http://www.libraryservices.nhs.uk/forlibrarystaff/impactassessment/

• Used LIS-MEDICAL Jiscmail list to recruit libraries outside West Midlands base.

Results

• As of 6th July 2012, 392 responses from people trained by 42 NHS Library services across England

• SurveyMonkey allows:– Aggregation of results– Individual organisation reports

Applications

• Working together we have obtained more representative and robust data than if we had worked on our own.

• Plan to continue to collect data and write up for publication.

Group membership

• Stephen Ayre, George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust• Colin Engel, Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust • Trish Lacey, Dudley Primary Care Trust• Anita Phul, Birmingham and Solihull Mental

Health NHS Foundation Trust• John Barbrook, Mid Staffordshire NHS

Foundation Trust • Suzanne Toft, Derby Hospitals NHS Foundation

Trust• Paul Stevenson, Airedale NHS Foundation Trust

Any questions or comments?