New Senior Library Assistant at MVH Library

We’re very pleased to introduce you to Don Lickley, who joined our LKS team in March. You can learn more about Don below:

“I am the new Senior Library Assistant based at Mill View Hospital. I am responsible for helping with the day-to-day running of the Library and helping users on the enquiry desk.

“This is my first time working for the NHS. I’m a qualified librarian and have worked in a range of library services over the years, including King’s College London, the College of Law and HM Treasury, as well as Sue Hill Recruitment, a specialist recruitment agency to the library and information sector.

 

“I’m fairly new to Brighton, so I’m looking forward to getting to know the team and the customers here, while continuing to explore the city”.

You can contact Don on don.lickley@nhs.net

 

New Learning Technologist for BSMS

We’re pleased to announce a new Learning Technologist for Brighton & Sussex Medical School. Although new to BSMS, Nicola Walters is a familiar face to BSUH NHS Trust staff from her work supporting iris and creating Departmental videos.

“I have recently joined BSMS as a Learning Technologist.  I come to BSMS from a technical and education background. From a degree in sound engineering, I began technically supporting FE and HE media production courses.  This progressed to 7 years’ experience teaching in media and IT. Then, I moved into managing a learning support team and working within a digital technologies initiative.  In my previous post, I was a Learning Technologist at BSUH. 

 

“Now, here at BSMS, my primary remit is to support BSMS PG programmes and teaching staff with the design, creation, implementation and evaluation of digital learning resources for healthcare courses, as part of a blended learning approach to enhance teaching and learning.

“Some of the main projects I will be working within include the development of courses for SAS doctors and resources for training and development of dissertation supervisors and I look forward to working further with educators on these projects.”

You can contact Nicola on N.Walters@bsms.ac.uk

 

 

Welcome Iain – our new iris expert!

We are delighted to welcome Iain O’Neill to our LKS team. Find out more about Iain and his role below:

“I have joined the Trust as a Senior Learning Technologist which means I will be helping the clinical and non-clinical staff access iris. Alongside that I will be helping to promote learning technology in the trust, helping solve the daily problems people face in their jobs and widen participation on iris by implementing new features and content.

 

 

 

“I come from a technology-oriented higher education teaching context where I worked with international learners and staff from all over the world so I am keen to bring some of that knowledge and expertise to the position and enable more staff with non-native speakers of all types and levels.

“I moved back to the UK in 2016 after 10 years in the Czech Republic and am still catching up with all the things that have changed! I am currently getting to grips with the complex data flow structure of our various systems alongside preparing a nursery for my soon-to-arrive second child and trying to keep my dog from barking her head right off!”

 

Iain can be contacted on iain.o’neill@nhs.net and you can learn more about iris here

 

New year and new role for Kevin!

As you may recall, Kevin Burgoyne became our Specialist Primary Care Librarian in 2017.

Despite the best efforts of everyone concerned, funding for the post ceased in late 2018, but the phoenix has risen from its ashes into a brand new role of Clinical Librarian for BSUH NHS Trust, focusing on Quality and Patient Safety.

Here is what Kevin has to say about his new direction:

 

“This new role is really interesting and reflects the range of requests for evidence and information that we see in the Library, from all areas of the Trust and beyond.

“I’m starting to work with the Patient First team on quality improvement projects that all teams will be involved in. Also, I am beginning to sit in some patient safety meetings, following on from work with the regional Serious Incident Review Group in my previous role.

“A large part of the new role is to support the Microguide project. This is making Trust policies, clinical guidelines and procedures (and more!) instantly accessible to the staff that need them, and well managed so that they are up to date, approved and based on best evidence. Lots has already been done by some of the Trust’s incredibly dedicated clinicians to make this a valued resource, but there’s plenty more to do as more teams and departments get involved. Microguide is available to anyone, it is linked to on the info-net or go directly:  https://viewer.microguide.global/BSUH

“It’s great to be able to support continuous improvement at BSUH, and I also continue to work with SCFT and primary care staff, so there’s never a dull moment!”

Kevin can be contacted on kevin.burgoyne@bsuh.nhs.uk to discuss any of the above.

 

Farewell to Matthew “iris” Taylor!

We’re sad to say Matthew Taylor, our Senior Learning Technologist, is leaving us for pastures new.

Matthew joined our team and BSUH in February 2015 to work on the BSUH Virtual Learning Environment project. Iris launched at the end of 2015 and has grown ever since, helping BSUH to achieve 90% compliance in Mandatory Training in 2018.

 

Matthew is moving to a new post at the University of Sussex where he’ll be working as a Learning Technologist supporting staff in Arts and Humanities. He would like to thank everyone who has helped and supported him during his time at BSUH.

Many of you have worked with or been supported by Matthew, or have attended his excellent Flipped and Active Learning sessions, so I’m sure you’ll join us all in wishing him the very best for the future.

(Incidentally, Matthew’s good work will continue under a new Senior Learning Technologist; watch this space!)

 

Clinical librarians enabling BSUH improvement

Tom Roper and Igor Brbre are our clinical librarians and work closely with management teams to ensure evidence is integrated into service improvement.

Nick Groves,  Associate Director (3Ts/Service Modernisation), has this to say in acknowledgement of their contribution:

“We’ve used the BSUH Clinical Librarian service to support 15+ management projects (in particular workforce/pathway/service redesign) and have hugely benefitted.   It’s made sure we’re drawing on all the available literature/evidence in designing our programmes, and has helped us identify where there’s a dearth – so opportunities to publish and contribute our learning.

“The whole service is designed to make it as easy and time-efficient as possible for the user: best search terms means fewer less relevant studies; summaries and hyperlinks to quickly access key documents; and advice on reliability and key themes in the literature overall.

“More than just a ‘service’, the Clinical Librarian has become a critical part of our core Project Teams, providing ongoing advice, support and (as needed) training for new Project Managers.  It has absolutely converted any sceptical managers about the practical value of literature searches.”

Nick Groves – Associate Director (3Ts/Service Modernisation), Brighton & Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust

 

Back in the days when…..

This piece of working ephemera gives  an insight into how the Brighton and Sussex NHS librarians used to catalogue material, and the time and processes involved.

Handwritten completed forms were passed on to the South East Thames Regional Library & Information Service, based at Brighton General Hospital,  for their cataloguing department to add to the regional catalogue.

Who would have thought then that the library could provide entire online texts at the fingertips of NHS staff?

We’ve come a long way!

 

Health Education England visit our Clinical Librarian service

Tim Swanwick (HEE Dean for Education and Leadership), Sue Lacey-Bryant ( HEE Programme Manager and Senior Advisor on Knowledge for Healthcare) and Louise Goswami (Head of Library and Knowledge Services and Technology-Enhanced Learning for London, Kent, Surrey and Sussex) are coming to the Royal Sussex County Hospital today  (Tuesday) to learn more about our clinical librarian service.

Two clinical librarians, Igor Brbre and Tom Roper, work with selected directorates at Brighton and Sussex NHS University Hospitals Trust – Abdominal Surgery and Medicine, the Acute Floor, Children’s Services, Musculoskeletal and Women’s Services. They support evidence-based practice, education and research, attending departmental meetings, identifying gaps in knowledge and filling them with evidence.

We’ve been offering a clinical librarian service since 2003, and it has grown to become a highly-valued part of the service. Over the past twelve months Igor and Tom performed 208 evidence searches for their departments, on topics such as regulation of the sale of alcohol and theimpact on alcohol related liver disease admissions, haemorrhage in major trauma, damage control orthopaedics and early appropriate care and 3D imaging corpus callosum in infants prenatally exposed to alcohol.

 

 

Brighton and Sussex NHS Library and Knowledge Service at #HLG2018: five go to Keele

The two-yearly conference of British health librarians, organised by the Health Libraries Group[,  takes place on Thursday and Friday 14th and 15th June at Keele University and Brighton and Sussex NHS Library and Knowledge Service are well represented in the programme.

Rachel Playforth, Assistant Librarian (Knowledge Management), presents a paper she and Clinical Librarian Igor Brbre have written, on literature searching peer review in practice: enhancing the skills of searchers, describing and analysing our system of peer review of evidence searches. We are one of the few library services to use peer review to maintain search quality and consistency.

Kevin Burgoyne will talk on the theme Help! I’m a Primary Care Librarian, offering his advice and experience to those setting up library and knowledge services to primary care and commissioners.

Tom Roper, Clinical Librarian, will help facilitate a Knowledge Café on social media and collaborative tools, and will present a paper on the highly successful #ukmedlibs Twitter chats he organises with two colleagues from other library services.

As well as delivering their papers, our delegates, with the addition of Ben Skinner, Head of Library and Knowledge Services and Cecelia Schwartzman, Assistant Librarian at the Royal Sussex County Hospital, will be listening to presentations from librarians from around Britain, looking for lessons and good practice they can bring back to apply locally.

You can follow the conference on Twitter with the hashtag #HLG2018, and some of the plenary sessions are being live-streamed.

Heritage Open Day – Royal Sussex County Hospital

Join us in celebrating the Royal Sussex County’s 190th Birthday at one of our free bite-size heritage talks on Monday 11th June.

Samantha Sharman, our Heritage Officer, will take you on a fascinating journey through our hospital’s vibrant and eventful history, complete with photographs and artefacts from the collection.

10.30am – 10.45am  Bite size talk: A snapshot of our History

11.30am – 11.45am  Bite size talk: About our Heritage project

1.00pm – 1.15pm       Bite size talk: A snapshot of our History (repeat)

2.00pm – 5.30pm       Drop in: Talk to the Heritage Officer and Object display

All events take place in The Chapel, The Barry building, Royal Sussex County Hospital, Eastern Road, Brighton

Contact Samantha.Sharman@bsuh.nhs.uk (Heritage Officer) for more information.