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WHAT'S NEW
CALCULATING AND DEMONSTRATING VALUE OF NHS LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SERVICES
Resources from the 2012 SHALL commissioned course Calculating and Demonstrating Value of NHS Library and Information Services delivered by Sandra Ward of Beaworthy Consulting and Ian Wooler of IDW Consultancy.
[03/05/2012]
REFRESHED LQAF VERSION 2.2 APRIL 2012 NOW AVAILABLE
You can download a refreshed version of the LQAF with corrected page 71.
[03/05/2012]

Innovations

What are LQAF Innovations?

As part of the self-assessment process for the NHS Library Quality Assurance Framework (LQAF) service managers are asked to identify examples of the 4 categories of innovation (Marketing, Organisational, Process and Product Innovation) within their service.

Appendix 1 of the LQAF [download pdf] explains what constitutes an innovation and provides an innovation template [download in MS Word] for completion by the service manager. The manager then submits the form to their SHA Library Lead for further consideration.

Rewarding Innovation

In 2010 the SHA Library Leads introduced four awards in the annual Sally Hernando* Award for Innovation in NHS Library and Knowledge Services.

The table below lists documents for you to download and the links to pages relating to the annual awards:

Year

Results of judging of submissions

Overview of process & summary of submissions

Link to pages of submissions

2011-12

84 submissions

(Innovation = 24 and Good Practice = 60)

revised version [download a PDF]

[download a PDF]


2011-12 winners and runners-up

All submissions on the wiki

2010-11

83 submissions

(Innovation = 36 and Good Practice = 47)

[download a PDF]

[download a PDF]

2010-11 winners and runners-up

All submissions on the wiki

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Copies of all the innovation submissions judged either innovations or good practice can be downloaded from www.libraryservices.nhs.uk/wiki/Innovations.MainPage.ashx for all the years the awards have been running.

More details of Innovations - London and the North West

Two SHAs have listed all their 2010 innovation submissions:

London at www.londonlinks.nhs.uk/resources/innovations and

North West at www.lihnn.nhs.uk/hclu/nhslqaf/lqafinnovations.html

* Sally Hernando (1957-2010) was the former Head of Knowledge Management and E-learning at NHS South West. Sally led on many innovative national developments and was a great supporter of developing library services to their fullest potential.

Further information about Sally is available in The Swimming Pool issue 16 2010, the newsletter of the SW information management system.

Page Updated 23 April 2012