Health and digital literacy pilots

Suffolk: Health Click Haverhill.

Focused on local community in Haverhill, with enhanced health information offer in town library and outreach to key groups.

Norfolk: Digital Health Hub – Easy Read Provision.

Extending existing Digital Health Hub to provide Easy-Read shared decision-making tools.

Shropshire: Your Health Admin.

Design of Your Health Admin toolkit for Shropshire residents, and upskilling of library staff to become Digital Health Champions using Digital Unite training package.

Staffordshire: Be Your Health.

Co-design of health and digital literacy actions with 16-25 year olds, including resource kits, community outreach and use of social media.

Leeds: Health Literacy Within Library Based Digital Health Hubs.

Employing additional librarians to extend role of digital health hubs including developing digital champions and resources on learning platform.

Lancashire: Addressing Low Health and Digital Literacy Across Lancashire.

Development of online health information hub, and cascading health literacy training to public library staff.

Somerset: Wellbeing, Health and Technology Information for All (WHAT IF).

Creation of Digital Health Hubs in libraries in Taunton and Yeovil, including digital health volunteers and loan of designated health iPads.

Aylesbury: Young offenders.

Increasing access to health information and engagement with health literacy by young offenders (17-21).

Westminster and Kensington and Chelsea Health Hubs.

Services in 2 locations with high levels of deprivation (North Kensington and Church Street) and online outreach with Adult Education to increase health and digital literacy.

Essex: Digital Champion Training.

Training for public library staff and digital champion volunteers on health literacy and purchase of tablets for outreach into rural areas.

Scarborough: libraries as gateways to good health.

Establishing public library as gateway to reliable health information and upskilling public library team to run drop in health and digital literacy sessions.

Newcastle: Help 4 Health.

Integrating provision of devices by Get Online Newcastle with training on health information and health applications; developing resources for wider use.

Ellesmere Port Library Health Helpers.

Integrating health literacy and digital literacy into social prescribing network, with social prescribing team to run wellbeing events in public libraries.

Oldham: Digital Health Pathways for Positive Health Outcomes.

Co-located General Practice (GP) surgery and public library as focus for health and digital drop in services, both referrals by healthcare professionals and promotion for self-access.