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Service goals

  • Library and information services have a valued, central role in the creation of an organisational culture, which promotes evidence-based practice.
  • There is a consistency in form and delivery for all aspects of the service across the region.
  • There is a policy of constantly seeking, testing, putting into practice and auditing the success of innovation and improvements to service and resources.
  • Library staff excellence is encouraged and supported by promoting job satisfaction, leadership opportunities and a framework for personal development.

The team

Clare Edwards/Bertha Low: (Acting) Library Services Advisor

Areas of responsibility: Head of the Library Services Development Unit and supports NHS West Midlands (SHA) workforce teams in developing a strategic approach to library and knowledge provision. 

Daryl Bate: Shropshire and Staffordshire e-library Project Officer. (part-time).
D.M.Bate@staffs.ac.uk
Tel: 01782 294983.
Areas of responsibility: To support the Shropshire and Staffordshire health and social care libraries in creating http://www.library.nhs.uk/sasha

 

Lesley Clarke: Assistant Electronic Resource Librarian (part-time)
Areas of responsibility: To provide quality control of Unicorn holdings' entries. To support development of the Cardiovascular Diseases Specialist Library website. 

April Coombe: External Projects Officer
Areas of responsibility: To manage, develop and promote the Cardiovascular Diseases Specialist Library, part of the National Library for Health. http://www.library.nhs.uk/cardiovascular

Sarah Greening: Patient Information Intelligence Officer
Areas of responsibility: To manage, develop and promote EQUIP, a web project on electronic quality information for patient. http://www.equip.nhs.uk

Bertha Yuen Man Low: IM&T Co-ordinator
Areas of responsibility: To provide support to information systems used for the resource sharing activities among libraries. 

Clare Edwards:  Education and Training Lead/BBC strategy co-ordination 
Areas of responsibility:  To lead on the strategic framework for library staff development; co-ordinate service development work across BBC SHA.

Sharon Stevens:  Health Information Co-ordinator 
Areas of responsibility:  To support professional development and training, BBC projects and the Cardiovascular Diseases Specialist Library.

Contact us

Workforce Deanery
NHS West Midlands
St Chad’s Court
213 Hagley Road
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B16 9RG