Keep up-to-date with best practice

Some tools and tips to help everyone with best practice and keeping up to date

Activities, tools, and tips

Investigative searching - to search for and identify, based on specified criteria, records/data/documents, etc which have been stored on a database or on the Internet

Horizon scanning - this is a process to identify potential trends, opportunities, new technologies or threats that could impact on your area of interest 

Alerting services - keep up-to-date in your desired area of interest with an alert 

Policy briefings - brief concise summaries on a particular issue

Facilitating action learning sets - action learning sets are groups of people within the workplace that meet up with the purpose of solving workplace problems  

• Clinical guidelines

  The creation of a database of clinical guidelines on the intranet

• Document management solution

  The creation of a Trust wide centralised document storage system

• Knowledge capture tools

  The capture of innovative practice at Public Health England

• Knowledge legacy

  The design of an interactive session to consider the retention of retirees' knowledge

• Leavers' toolkit

  The creation of a toolkit to capture leavers' knowledge

• Publications database

  The setting up of a searchable bank of Trust publications