"Frontline doctors and their needs should lead the strategy for evaluation of decision support ... they will be the ones who will be putting decision support into practice. " Workshop report gives food for thought. journals.lww.com/ehpf/fulltext/…

Check out my latest article: How well led is your trust? linkedin.com/pulse/how-well… via LinkedIn

Healthcare professionals wanting to know more about human factors often ask me ‘where do I start?’ It’s a huge subject but I suggest thinking about 3 things: How can I improve my own performance? How can we improve team working? How can my organisation improve patient safety?

Our weekly update email will be arriving in inboxes later today - but you can listen to our podcast with John Minshull now! This week: Phenytoin & folic acid, ATMP risk assessments, and SPS Clinical Pharmacy Congress Listen here: youtube.com/watch?v=tSmZc7… #DoOnceAndShare

10 Reasons to be cheerful! Counting down to my last working day as Chief Knowledge Officer, I'm celebrating the impact of the amazing work of healthcare librarians. "Have you ever been asked to do more with less?" Take 2 minutes to find out more. youtu.be/oAFtyiVZ5zU

I'm reading "The Friction Project: How Smart Leaders Make The Right Things Easier and The Wrong Things Harder" by Bob Sutton (Bob Sutton) & Huggy Rao. "Friction" means the forces that make it harder, slower or more complicated to get things done in organisations. They describe

A gift this International Nurses Day to all NHS nurses and students on placement in England. Nationally funded and free to use the renowned Royal Marsden Manual of Clinical and Cancer Nursing Procedures Online #RMMO. login.openathens.net/auth/nhs/o/140… NHS England Workforce, Training and Education

1 in 3 people with dementia are living without a vital diagnosis that could give them the right treatment and support. If you’re worried about dementia, know what to look out for using our symptom checklist 👉 spkl.io/60144NaxE #DementiaActionWeek

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NHS staff and students in England have access to over 240 Oxford University Press medical and healthcare books online, courtesy of NHS England. Includes Oxford Textbook of Medicine and Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine #OUPNHS @NHS_WTE Find out more: pages.oup.com/hee

In the blog below, Chris Elston, Patient Safety Education Lead for University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, introduces the Patient Safety Education Network👇 pslhub.org/learn/professi…

Huge thanks to our expert panel of reviewers for your insight into this review: Tom Bishop, Head of Patient Information at Anthony Nolan Patient advocate Trishna Bharadia BA(hons), MFPM(hon) @atc_translation CEO Raisa McNab ISO and #PlainLanguage expert Doug Lawrence

The 2024 HLG SIG Conference begins on 20 June! This year's agenda features a brilliant range of talks focussed around the key theme #Connecting. Read the FREE virtual HILJ which mirrors the Connecting Theme: shorturl.at/MO026   #HLG2024 CILIP Health Information and Libraries Journal (HILJ)

"1) A wise man told me “Never ask a question to which you do not already know the answer” 2) a wise woman advised me “Make sure you learn as much from people you dislike as from those you do.” Some top advice from our Leading Practitioner series> buff.ly/3K8Nk6g

Can I draw your attention to this survey via Medical Protection? If you have International Medical Graduates in your team? Do ask them to fill this Induction is key & at the GMC -we want to know more about process, things to improve etc RT please 🙂 Link: surveymonkey.com/r/V2GDKQZ

ASCO 2024: New ultra-sensitive blood test predicts recurrence of breast cancer, months or even years before relapse: icr.ac.uk/news-archive/a…

Writing health information? Try the NHS Readability Tool to help you simplify your written text. Part of a suite of resources available in the Health Literacy Toolkit #HealthLiteracyhttps://library.nhs.uk/health-information/ #HealthLiteracy NHS England Workforce, Training and Education HealthLitKLS

I spoke to a library manager who had just reviewed the patient information produced by her hospital - on average requiring a reading age of 18.2 years. The national average is 9 - 11 yrs. We need a selection of materials on each condition that respect different literacy levels.

A timely briefing from @CommsLibrary as we near Nov 11: healthcare support available to armed forces veterans in the UK. The Armed Forces Covenant says veterans have distinct health needs &should receive priority treatment for service-related conditions commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-brief…