Hello and welcome to the blog of the University Hospitals of Leicester Clinical Librarian Service.
We’re one of the longest running Clinical Librarian services
in the UK, working across three hospital sites as part of the University
Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust. We take information services into the
clinical setting, responding to information needs that arise there. Information
professionals join the multidisciplinary team at ward rounds and in clinical
meetings and work in partnership with health professionals, promoting a
questioning and learning culture in the organisation. The Clinical Librarian
Service thus offers a mechanism for getting research evidence into practice and
for clinical governance at the trust to be supported.
We’re organisers of clinical librarian conferences,
including the International Clinical Librarian Conference (ICLC) and more recently the
successful Point of Care Study Day, which was rated as excellent by attendees.
The Commission for Healthcare Improvment (CHI) report on UHL
NHS Trust identified the Clinical Librarian Service as one that "other
organisations in the NHS could learn from."
