Future proofing the profession

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Future proofing the profession

• Health Executive Advisory Group
• Jackie Lord
• Chair Health Libraries Group
• September 2004

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What is a CILIP Executive Advisory Group?

• Task and finish group
• Advising CILIPs Executive
• Fresh thinking and insight into key policy areas
• Regionalism and devolution, national information
  plan, social inclusion

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Health Executive Advisory Group

• Identify and explore key agendas and challenges
  that LIS faces within health care
• Consider the relevance of the developments within
  LIS healthcare to the LIS profession more
  generally
• Advise CILIP on its role and activities within
  the healthcare sector

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Future proofing project

• Judy Palmer, Oxford University Library Services
  (Chair)
• Anne Brice, NeLH
• Guy Daines, CILIP
• Veronica Fraser, DoH
• Jackie Lord, HLG

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Premises

• Future proofing the profession
• Health as a paradigm for the profession as a
  whole
• Enable CILIP to impact on the future

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Methodology

• Workshop May 2003
• The example of health a prognosis for the
  profession?
• Report of workshop
• Series of interviews with groups of individuals
  based on initial report - iterative
• Consultation via web
• Final report September 2004

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Why health?

• HLG over 2000 members and 10 CILIP membership
• Diverse NHS, HE, professional associations,
  independent sector, public libraries
• High political profile
• Constant change

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Context

• NHS 1.2 million staff
• Drive to modernise services and improve access
• Health and Social care
• Consumer and patient involvement
• Lifelong learning, demographic and workforce
  challenges
• Evidence based practice
• Decision making from secondary to primary care
  and preventative medicine

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Context

• Readdressing health inequalities
• Quality and equity of services
• Technological revolutions
• High political profile

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Impact on Librarians

• Potential of Web
• Evidence based health
• Change in working practices
• Knowledge management
• Informatics

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Emerging roles

• Status by specialist skills not just managerial
• Less likely to be Library based
• Using traditional skills in new ways e.g. cat and
  class to web navigation , information
  architecture
• Librarians as partners in the workplace
• Developing critical appraisal skills and
  information skills in the workplace
• Customising information

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Emerging roles

• Cross-sectorally health, social services,
  education
• Working in multidisciplinary teams
• Developing evidence based services
• Cascading critical appraisal skills and
  information skills in the workplace
• Educating users of and providers of information
• Promoting quality information for clinical
  governance and risk management

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Variety of jobs

• Primary publishers
• Primary care knowledge managers
• Information analysts
• Health informaticians
• Clinical librarians
• Electronic resource managers
• R D facilitators
• Information providers for patients/public
• Outreach Librarians

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Skills

• Leadership
• Financial
• Strategists
• Influencing
• Entrepreneurial
• Project Management
• ICT
• Negotiating
• Facilitation

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Skills

• Audit
• Research
• Knowledge management
• Metadata creation
• Creative
• Proactive
• Drive change
• Communication

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CPD

• Effective learning for whole of career
• E-learning
• Learning sets
• Mentors
• Evidence based librarianship

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CILIP

• CILIP more actively involved in influencing
  employers
• Leadership programme
• CILIP kite mark
• Attract broader community into CILIP
• Focus on students
• Learn from other professional associations e.g.
  RCN, BMA
• Horizon scanning
• Regulated LIS

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HLG

• Clarify roles and responsibilities of CILIP/HLG
• HLG/CILIP act as advocate to government and link
  health LIS into wider political arena
• Work with CILIP over CPD, and link to external
  NHS developments
• Bring together disparate LIS groups and
  rationalise
• HLG as pilot for above

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HLG

• In what ways can the profession be future
  proofed?
• What support do you need from HLG?
• What sort of influencing role do you want from
  HLG?
• What sort of CPD would you like?
• Do you think HLG should bring together other
  disparate groups how?
• What is your role in the above?