Overview

The healthcare environment is changing rapidly, and effective management of the knowledge base in this area is an integral part of delivering high quality patient care. Information professionals working in this sector need to adapt to new roles to meet the needs of an increasingly demanding user base. This comprehensive text aims to equip information workers and other health professionals with the tools they require to meet these challenges. The predecessor to this work, Managing Knowledge in Health Services, was brilliantly received at the time (2000). This new book builds on the foundations of its predecessor to capture and explore the key developments that have arisen in the fast-moving healthcare sector, providing a snapshot of what health library and information professionals need to know now. Individual chapters contributed by leading edge practitioners focus on issues of contemporary relevance. This is a valuable book for all health library and information service providers and students in the field. It is also of great value to the increasing number of healthcare professionals, such as research and development coordinators and clinical effectiveness/governance facilitators, required to access health information as part of their working roles.

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Highly recommended - and of much wider application than its title would suggest. -- Library and Information Research ...this book is of real interest to anyone working in a health library -- Library Review

'Exploiting Knowledge in Health Services gives a good overview of context, practicalities, and vision for knowledge management in the health services field.' [Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries] 'This is a book full of practical hints and tips. So it is not just a book for the library, but a handbook for the offices of the many people whose working lives touch, or are touched by, knowledge management in its widest sense.' [Health Libraries Group Newsletter] 'Buy this book. It's cheaper than a conference but just as informative and uplifting.' [Update]

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Graham Walton PhD BSc(Hons) MA MBA MCLIP is Principal Officer in Learning Resources and Research Fellow, Information Management Research Institute, at Northumbria University. Andrew Booth BA(Hons) MSc DipLib MCLIP is Director of Information Resources and Senior Lecturer in Evidence-based Healthcare at the School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR), University of Sheffield. The contributors Steve Ashwell Healthcare information and web consultant John Blenkinsopp North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Trust Janette Boynton NHS Quality Improvement Scotland Anne Brice Public Health Resource Unit, Oxford Sue Lacey Bryant Vale of Aylesbury Primary Care Trust Susan Childs Information Management Research Institute, Northumbria University Jo Cooke Trent Focus Primary Care Research Support Unit Sharon Dobbins County Durham and Tees Valley Workforce Development Confederation Maria J. Grant Salford Centre for Nursing, Midwifery and Collaborative Research, University of Salford Angela Gunn Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford Susannah Hanlon School of Informatics, Northumbria University Valerie Monaghan South Yorkshire Workforce Development Confederation David Peacock NHS Northern Workforce Development Confederation Susan Roe Welsh Assembly Health Information Monitoring Service, NHS Wales Steve Rose Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford David Stewart Health Libraries North West Alison Turner National electronic Library for Health Alison Winning Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Trust Alison Yeoman University of Wales, Aberystwyth.

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