Cross-Trust collaboration

By contributing local information to national electronic resources it helps assist with knowledge and information sharing and innovation.

Knowledge and library services staff should be encouraged sharing information and innovation.

This can be contributing case studies, do once and share initiatives or contributing to National resource delivery such as current awareness bulletins. Sharing best practice is a great way to drive up standards in the profession. There is also the ability to link local guidelines and policies within electronic resources such as The Royal Marsden Manual online and Clinical Skills which helps to improve the visibility of local evidence-based guidance.

There are a range of communication channels available to facilitate sharing and contributions which are listed below.

• Workforce network
• KnowledgeShare connects health care staff with their local NHS library and knowledge service. Registered users can also use KnowledgeShare to find colleagues with shared interests, helping to spread innovation and collaborate on service improvement
• NHS librarians email list

About facilitating online projects and collaborative working.

It involves groups or communities working together to produce a resource. This can be within NHS organisations or across geographical/organisational boundaries.

NHS library and knowledge staff can support these groups with their information and knowledge needs. This could be by providing literature searching, document supply or advice on document repositories.

Using Wikis in the NHS – Archived website on Wikis.

Collaborative technologies – Working smarter in the NHS.