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Every day more than a million decisions are made across the NHS and healthcare sector.

Under the Health and Social Care Act 2012 health services have a responsibility to ensure that evidence is obtained from research. Health Education England and the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals have launched #AMillionDecisions campaign, calling for all decisions we make to be evidence based and to do this by utilising the skills of health librarians.

Library Services that support your decision making

Specialist librarians bring the evidence to inform good healthcare decision-making. Find out more and pledge your support:

What Our Library Users Are Saying...

"Apprentices now have greater access to resources, not only at College or University but in the workplace. The benefits are not solely logistical; the resources and services available to them via the Library & Knowledge Service are current, relevant and varied."

"The library provided me with the evidence base to support a service development of developing a early discharge detox policy. This has improved patient clinical outcomes. This also reduces length of stay and re-attendance at A&E."

"Literature searches carried out by the library staff assisted in the development of a new education program for unregistered staff in response to the Francis report."

"The library carried out a literature search and provided my team with a wealth of relevant information from a variety of different sources that we were able to use within our poster presentation."

"The information I receive has a positive impact in my role as a Non-Executive Director. Over the past year in post I have found the library alerting service to be an invaluable resource it is a great way to be kept informed via the on-line platform that I can access at times to suit."